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
    2025-01-03T12:41:44+00:00

    Hi Will Davidson,

    I think my hacker is on the same plane as yours... or the same VPN. All my unsuccessful login attempts seem to be from the same countries/cities. In my simple understanding, this would indicate a pattern that AI 'should' be able to pick up?!... but also maybe the pattern is not as pure and simple as it seems. Hopefully it can be resolved and blocked soon.

    Anyway... question for you: Did you activate MFA (2FA) and did that work for you?

    Cheers and thanks

    N

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T00:09:51+00:00

    This is awesome thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T23:10:57+00:00

    Exact same day as mines was successfully hacked into, I recovered my account and since 01.01.25, I have a list similar to yours of unsuccessful login attempts. They took over my social media, locked my accounts and have impersonated me alongside bitcoin fraud using my social media. Insane that all these attempts aren't picked up on by Microsoft!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-05T18:30:40+00:00

    This is exactly how mine is! Started one December 8, 2024 and has been 15+ attempts from all over the world every single day since!

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  5. Hal Hostetler MVP-Outlook 12,011 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-05T18:41:55+00:00

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