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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 agree, I am on live chat wait list with Microsoft. I just did these a few weeks back. That is how I found out about creating an alias. I did not use the alias for anything except signing in, but they have it and are unsuccessfully trying to login with it now. Luckily, they have never been successful. Thanks
Hello, I did the alias, and all was good, but I just looked at my sign in activity again today and now they are trying to sign in using my alias. They have never been able to login, but they are getting access to my alias now too. I have never used my alias for anything except signing in. I only created it last month. I am confused on how they gained access to the new alias!
If you remove the Microsoft account, you permanently delete the email address and mailbox, never to return, gone, history.
Can I just completely remove the Microsoft account.
What happens if I do.
It seems it's another source of risk. Plus a hassle to learn and trust all the added points.
Laundry boy
Thanks I used the alias method, all good now!