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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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I just wish M$ Would let me Geo-block sign in.. sure they'll try other countries but most of mine are from the same 3 or 4 countries... mfa can help but I'd like to block too
Assuming he hasn't exposed the alias it's possible they could be generating possible variants and attempting logins to see which succeed in a response.
Whether or not that's the case two things need to happen, and it's worrying that MS haven't addressed this.
When Microsoft detect these regular constant logins from different countries, they should alert the account holder with an "is this you" warning mail and if the answer is no then guide the user to ensure they have at least one 2 factor authentication method set up AND allow/guide/force the user to geo-restrict logins.
If the user wants to use a VPN perhaps they could have the option of choosing a restricted number of different country or countries.
I cannot understand why microsoft have not stopped this, they could easily detect this abuse, in fact they are in the best position of all to detect and stop it.
On a human level whilst 2FA might secure the account it doesn't prevent the user worrying that they are being targeted.
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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
On discovering by using PWNED (a password checker) on a google search, i was informed that my email account password had been breached? I have just changed my password.
Looking at my "attempts to log in, i noticed multiple attempts from abroad to unsuccessfully log in to my email.
I am also starting to receive emails which i think are called "sexploitation" emails claiming that i have been viewing adult web sights when i have'nt, and they are demanding money, else they will send video evidence of my actions to all of my contacts.
I am totally aware that these are scam attempts and i have deleted the aforementioned emails
Can you advise of any further security that i could use to block these attempts. As you can see from my date of birth i am approaching 74 years of age and my IT knowledge is extremely limited.
Any further advise would be greatly appreciated
Tony Moses