How can I stop all the unauthorized login attempts from around the world?

Authenticator has nothing to do with them trying. It just means that even if they crack your password you would get a warning which you would not click on of course because it isn't you (and which would lead you to secure your account and change the password)

You must MUST continue to use Authenticator or some other 2nd level check whatever you do.

Go to your settings and set up an alias account with a different personal name for example ******@outlook.com or whatever hasn't been taken by someone else, then change your mail login to that alias and in the corner of that settings pane is a link which allows you to choose which of your addresses is allowed to sign in. Disable all but your new alias. Then when they try to log in with your old address they will not be able to and you won't see any more attempts.

The attempts on my account are even more frequent than hourly!

I really don't like being targeted.

China China China bots (usually 5 times all with different IPs) Brazil, Russia, Bolivia etc. etc. And it never stops.

If Microsoft see this level of activity surely they must know it has to be malicious and they should find some way to prevent it.

The issue with geofencing is that as the perps use VPNs, eventually they will hit a location that isn't geofenced. Thus the interaction they see when attempting a login would have to be the same whether or not it was geofenced (or they might eventually, given enough attempts, find your IP.

Just a thought (I'm sure it won't be practical) - give the user an option of there being no way to either enter a password or authenticate or log-in unless the user enters the first 6 digits of their IP (be it static or dynamic or a vpn) followed by a user chosen (long) phrase?

I'd be prepared to trade that inconvenience against the perpetual worry of bad actors getting access.

Every hour now according to the Authenticator. No code requests since I moved to that. Annoying and yeah Microsoft should give the option to report and log ip addresses. Brazil Russia Ukraine Bolivia amongst many others.

Hello Harris, quite interesting outcome. As soon as I listed the alias as my new login preference, I started getting attempts on the alias. Crazy. I have seen a way to block all login attempts from outside the designated country. I tried the procedure, but when I got to step 3, it wasn't available. Here it is.

To answer your question, yes, you can block sign-in attempts from outside your country of residence. This can be done by enabling the "Country/Region" block feature in your Microsoft account security settings.

To do this, please follow these steps:

1. Go to account.microsoft.com and sign in to your Microsoft account.
2. Click on "Security" from the left-hand menu.
3. Scroll down to the "Advanced security options" section and click on "Manage advanced security".
4. Under "Country/Region", click on "Edit".
5. Select the countries/regions that you want to block and click on "Save".

Like I said at step 3 there was not "Advance security option" nor "Manage advanced security". Any suggestions?

I have had the same issue and have attempted to contact microsoft's security team with no success. I can't get past the garbage automated systems to speak or chat with a real person that might be able to do something.