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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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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! ✌️😁
Well, if your info has been sold on the dark web, that is one way in. New aliases found so quickly may be from a malicious screen share malware file. I have had two removed in three weeks by the Geek Squad.
Yes disabled the compromised email but was having issues with my phone which had been sold on the dark web and was being used for sign in. Everytime I took it off I had computer problems.
So finally windows support took over my computer and showed me how to take my phone off without affecting performance.
The problem with the Authenticator is using outlook mail and I would have had to give that up and go to Xfinity mail with two factor authentication to use it.
So for now no one knows how to log in to my Microsoft account unless I get another rootkit or malware infection.
How do you set up a primary alias without messing with your email and how to disable signing from old primary alias? Thank you for the reply by the way.
Its all explained in this article:
Thank you but windows support helped me and all is solved now.