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

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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?

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2024-07-02T08:01:55+00:00

Dear KE_86,

Thanks for using Microsoft Product and posting in community.

I'm sorry to hear about the unauthorized login attempts on your email account. It's really disturbing to receive verification login messages from different parts of the world every day, and it's good to know that you've enabled double verification, so your account is definitely safe, and rest assured that hackers will never be able to log in without your authorization.

Of course, in addition to double verification, you can also download and install a Microsoft secure authenticator, because this authentication method hackers can not enter or try your password, this process cancels the process of typing the password, you can click here to set up! About Microsoft Authenticator - Microsoft Support

I know you don't want your account to be constantly trying to log in, I have a more niche method here that may be useful to some people, if you don't find it cumbersome you can also try to use it:

In order to solve this problem, if you are able to log into your account properly you can click this link to log in your Microsoft account, click [Your Information]-[Account Information]-[Edit Account Information], you can add an alias for your account in this interface, please note that due to the potential risk of your current account, it is best to create an alias that does not require outlook/Hotmail authentication and set the added alias as the primary Alias. You can then click [Change Login Preferences] below to uncheck the checkbox in front of your old account, which will make it impossible to log in with your old account name, thus effectively stopping hackers from constantly logging in. Please remember to keep your new account alias. You will also not be able to log in to your account with your old account name. In our tests, you were still able to receive emails under your old account name.

Note: Usually, hackers don't attack the same account consecutively, the attack will have a duration and if your account doesn't exist for a long time, the hacker's automated attack script may no longer try to access it. You can reset the original name back to the main alias after a certain period of time, usually we recommend users to hide it for 3-5 days. I hope my reply was helpful!

If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply to me at the bottom of this post!

Best regards,

Harris-MSFT |Microsoft Community support specialist
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