Cant do anything on my email. too many repeated authentication attempts!! What?!?!

Anonymous
2024-02-12T15:31:41+00:00

Hello people.

At the moment im very frustrated. I cant do anything on my email. I expect important mail today. And im greeted by this: Something went wrong and we can't sign you in right now. Please try again later.

The Microsoft account login server has detected too many repeated authentication attempts. Please wait a moment and try again.

Like what?!? How can there be too many repeated authentication attempts? Years ago i discovered this problem with my outlook that almost every hour 100ths of login attemps are being made on my email. out of china, India and other nations. Using VPNs and stuff. I then asked for help. And was told that i shouldnt worry about those. Those are failed attempts. They have no consequences on your account. Well that was a lie.... Apperently.

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I have a strong password. And 2FA on my mobile phone. More i cant do. This problem is just incredibly frustrating. I would have been using another email long ago. if this one wasnt connected to so many important things and friends and family.

I get over a 100 spam emails a day 20 of them goes past my spam filter. I get emails from myself demanding bitcoin. When i respond to them(to tell them to 'take a walk'). The response goes to my own email. How can that be?!? I have checked everything. Secured everything. Last week. I had this problem that on my PC start screen everything was suddenly in chinese!

Considering everything. My conclusion has to be that microsofts servers are compromised. Otherwise all these things shouldnt happen. Its frustrating. Especially when i try to speak to a person. And i finally found a phone number. The response i get is Sorry we do everything online now. So you dont have to wait(last part is a lie).

Im so frustrated with microsoft. But they obviously dont care. They have a monopoly. They can ignore their customers. Or can be loose with their data.

Now the rant is over. Now for my questionHow can i safely access my email again? Do i have to wait? For how long? I cant wait. As i expect a important email today.

Thanks in advance for any help. * Changed to a question

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-22T00:12:40+00:00

    Aug 21, 2024 - I can confirm!!!! - hit reply to this message and then you are forced to sign in. It solves the problem. Also, prior to this error message, I was able to log in on another browser, as well as on my phone. The browser I was blocked on was Brave -- until I hit reply to the message on this board. Meanwhile, chrome didn't give me the log-in issue and message like Brave did,

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-30T12:09:34+00:00

    Same situation, too many log in's message at the top of my mail when opening the tab, replying to this thread fixed it with the log in prompt...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-21T06:53:24+00:00

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-20T16:29:00+00:00

    Confirming that this idiotic fix works. Saved myself from a time sensitive problem that required accessing my email. Why is this necessary?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-18T13:36:01+00:00

    Same here today

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