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. Hal Hostetler MVP-Outlook 12,011 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-02T19:20:59+00:00

    Did you use the alias to send an email or log into any other web site? The trick is to use the alias ONLY to log in and to NEVER use it for anything else. If you use it to send an email or log into some other web site, the alias is then exposed to the world, the hackers pick up on it, and try to log in with it. So, create another new alias, aet it as the login address, and NEVER use it for anything else.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-02T19:07:17+00:00

    Thats not a good sign as this is what the experts are telling us to do, create an alias

    Its time microsoft to do some serious checking of this issue regarding unauthorised login attempts. If the alias is creating a problem thats serious

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-02T18:36:07+00:00

    Thanks, I did this and all is good now!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-02T18:00:47+00:00

    If you use the alias method by setting up an alias login email which you will use to log in, and not allowing the original email to be used to log in, nobody will be able to attempt to log in to the account which is getting attempts from hackers.

    As long as you look after the new alias and don't post it anywhere where it can be harvested and you use Authenticator (vital) there won't be any future attempts.

    Your original email address will still work, it will still get incoming mail, you don't need to (and should NOT) delete it.

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  5. Hal Hostetler MVP-Outlook 12,011 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-02-28T23:34:45+00:00

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