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I've had a huge increase of people trying to sign in to my email account the past few days. As in multiple attempts every hour, every day, from all of the world. I've had to change my password daily and I'm worried about my email getting hacked. Is there any extra security or anything else I can do other than the two factor authentication that can protect my email from being hacked. It's insane the amount of login attempts that are happening lately. Multiple attempts at the same time in different ends of the world. I've never had this happen before. Will it decrease eventually?
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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I just wish M$ Would let me Geo-block sign in.. sure they'll try other countries but most of mine are from the same 3 or 4 countries... mfa can help but I'd like to block too
It is an issue; I use the second level of authentication and have Norton on all my devices. I have used both for years. It baffles me how they get access to my ID's! So far, my passwords have remained safe. We never had the issue of ID leaks until current times, it scares me they will eventually be doing the same with passwords too!
Locking the account by MS could only be a very last resort and only for accounts which don't have MFA (multi factor authentication), it would be extremely inconvenient and a bad decision if they were to lock the accounts which have MFA, in fact I would go as far as to say it would be disastrous.
For those without MFA it would also be extremely inconvenient.
They need to do what I suggested above, and not do something which would inconvenience hundreds of thousands of customers.
Having some sort of second level of authentication (preferably authenticator) should be mandatory, without it you're at the mercy of the hackers.
The alias hack is just a stickng plaster on a gaping wound, it might stop the attempts (until they find the alias) but the real fix has to be amputation of the limb (the limb being the hackers).
Microsoft, you can fix this or make it lot better (hopefully without inconveniencing customers).
A security setting for geo-restriction would be good first step.
MFA = ?
Set up MFA and you'll get prompted if they find the correct password