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Constant attack of foreign log in attempts

Anonymous
2024-03-09T15:59:52+00:00

I been getting hundreds of attempts to log in on my email account from foreign countries (probably vpn). And some of them actually succeeded on syncing Outlook.

This has been happening more than months now. I'm so sick and tired of getting surprise notifications stating i made too many false attempts to log in every time i tried to log in.

I'm beyond terrified of this now. Is there any way i can completely block log in attempts from certain countries or make it double authentication log in ?

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Anonymous
2024-07-17T03:07:47+00:00

No, the location isn't accurate. It's mostly likely a group of hackers who control a bot farm and are performing brute force attacks on any email/passwords found in any data breaches. They are most likely doing it via a VPN, so the bots bounce their location around to any available VPN servers located in different countries.

There is a good way to fix this issue:

https://www.outlook-tips.net/tips/keeping-hackers-microsoft-accounts/

Add a new alias, set it as primary then remove sign in permission from the current address

Add an alias here - https://account.live.com/names/manage Don't remove the current address, if you do, it is gone forever. You just want to add a new alias and set it as primary.

Change sign in preferences using the link at the bottom of that page - https://account.live.com/SignInPreferences. Only check off the new alias you just created. When you sign in, you need to use the new alias. do not use the alias anywhere else.

my sign in was ******@email.com

I simply made an alias of ******@email.com and only added a period, removed sign in permission from the original email, and it has stopped all attempts because it is different from the email address the hackers have for you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-24T08:32:00+00:00

    Hello man, yes there is a way to stop them I had the same issue. You have to change your primary alias and forbid the current email you are using to login to sign in.

    That means create a fake email and add it as alias to your microsoft account. after that disable sign in for your first email and set your current email as primary alias. That will basically show them that old email is non existing microsoft account.

    For me it worked so do it asap and everyone who have the same issue do it immediately!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-22T06:19:43+00:00

    No, the location isn't accurate. It's mostly likely a group of hackers who control a bot farm and are performing brute force attacks on any email/passwords found in any data breaches. They are most likely doing it via a VPN, so the bots bounce their location around to any available VPN servers located in different countries.

    There is a good way to fix this issue:

    https://www.outlook-tips.net/tips/keeping-hackers-microsoft-accounts/

    Add a new alias, set it as primary then remove sign in permission from the current address

    Add an alias here - https://account.live.com/names/manage Don't remove the current address, if you do, it is gone forever. You just want to add a new alias and set it as primary.

    Change sign in preferences using the link at the bottom of that page - https://account.live.com/SignInPreferences. Only check off the new alias you just *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

    I simply made an alias of *** Email address is removed for privacy *** and only added a period, removed sign in permission from the original email, and it has stopped all attempts because it is different from the email address the hackers have for you.

    This is definitely the best solution against the email being leaked and someone attempts to brute force it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-16T02:50:40+00:00

    I'm having this exact same issue.

    I have a relatively safe password, however, this is ridiculous. I'd like for this matter to be properly addressed, please.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-14T04:58:48+00:00

    @Microsoft, what everyone else said? I'm up to 20-30 attempts per day from every country I can name. There has to be a way to block sign-on attempts by country / region.

    Have we found a way to block foreign sign in yet?

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