How can I stop all the unauthorized login attempts from around the world?

Anonymous
2024-07-02T04:20:16+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-15T09:03:25+00:00

    i have been having the same issue for 18 months plus. constant logins from different places worldwide!

    i have enabled the 'make me change my password every 72 days' to be even more secure and always choose a secure password which i dont use for anything. just today i actually received an authenticator app alert for a sign in, assuming they somehow got the password?

    how are they getting these passwords!

    im grateful for this thread and have just added an alias (which i dont use for ANYTHING else) so we will see how long this helps for.

    when are microsoft going to do something about this!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-12T01:37:57+00:00

    Ive had same issue! how did you stop?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-10T14:32:24+00:00

    Use the alias method described earlier to change to account used for logging in. Your original email will still work, but you'll log in with your new alias. Don't make the alias public. That will stop the attempts.

    If you're getting alerts of failure to login there is no point in changing your password as they haven't cracked your password (IMPORTANT assuming your password is complex, if not make sure you change it)

    To save you looking for how to do this, I'll re-iterate

    Click on "My Account"

    Click on My info (the head and shoulders symbol)

    scroll down, Click on Sign-in preferences bottom left in Account info pane

    add an alias mail if necessary, make it primary

    Then make sure you click on "change sign-in preferences" and disable the mails you don't want to be used for login, one of which will be the attempted login account.

    If you're forgetful you could have have 2 aliases that may be used for sign in, I prefer one (half the risk of hackers finding the new alias)

    You can still use your original email address, just not for login.

    Don't make the new email alias public or use it for anything on the internet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-10T13:23:33+00:00

    every technology in this world, will always have a breach, even the blockchain.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-09T16:50:31+00:00

    JUST THIS MONTH I AM EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING? What the heck is MS doing that is allowing this?

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