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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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Yes I have no idea how they got the new alibis. It took them little over a week to find it? Also there are only a third of the login attempts that I has with the old one. I have Norton and Life Lock and scan almost daily, as well as their autos scan! Thanks again! ✌️😁
It seems to me that if you choose the no-password route with a 2 Factor Authentication, it becomes way more intrusive for the user than having a password and 2 Factor Authentication, because you're constantly being made aware that there are login attempts.
I appreciate that given the latter method there is a slight element of "ignorance is bliss", but I'd rathe have that than constantly being asked to authenticate (which in itself carries a further risk).
However irritating it might be it's worth choosing an alias (or trying an alias) that is fairly complex - as long as you can remember it.
I don't know how on earth they (the hackers) would get hold of the new alias as long as it's not posted or used to log into anywhere, unless MS servers are being hacked or your computer isn't clean.
(Important: You must disable the "hack-attempted" email address from being used to log in.)
Thanks, I tried everything, after I created a new profile and made it primary, I never used it for anything except to login. It only took a week before they got ahold of that one. I use double verification and no password, so they have never been successful. So annoying, it must be a Microsoft hack. It is happening to so many! Thanks anyway.
Please have a look at the article, it has full instructions on how to set this all up:
Did you change your primary alias as in my reply below?