Constant password changes

Question

I try to stay informed on data breaches often to protect my accounts, as everyone should. Which of course, there are data breaches constantly. There is no shortage of losers around the globe who are trying to break into peoples accounts, I get that. Ive had an xbox account for the past 15 years, and have used a Live.com domain for the same amount of time. The past 5 years had some major data breaches, alot of which included my live.com email which I used for a majority of things, as well as my password being found in many data breaches, some recently.

Now, I understand changing your password often, but jesus F*****g christ. I have 2FA enabled. I cant sign in anywhere without getting a text and checking my 3rd party email. Thats fine, that protects me. But if some Bozo on the other side of the world fails to guess my password 3 or whatever times in a row, it locks my account, and forces me to change the password. Okay, ill do that. Password changed. Now i get to re-sign in to all my emails on my desktop, laptop, phone, and obviously xbox. Cool. Tomorrow, some other loser finds my email in a data leak, and an associated password, they guess my password incorrectly, it locks my account, i have to change the password (the one that they FAILED to guess), and sign in to allllll of my devices again. So i change the password. the next day, or the next week, another scum sucking hacker tries to break into my account, and fails. Rinse and repeat over and over for the past 5 years. Is this REALLY the best way to protect my account? by making me, the consumer slowly resent using anything affiliated with Microsoft? Even though the hackers cant even get passed the password screen! really? Why cant I disable that? If someone from Somalia wants to hunt me down and try and clone my phone to get access to my 2FA, AND manages to get into my 3rd party email 2FA, all so they can get access to my Call of Duty account, i would happily take that risk, instead of this Constant cycle of forcing to change the lock on my gate that no one has managed to scale, let alone figured out how to get passed the metaphorical Guard Dogs and Landmines. The brightest minds on the planet work at Microsoft, but you cant make this process more consumer friendly. Please

Answer 1

Hi @AdamH343

Welcome to our forum!

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, at the moment we are unable to fully curb malicious behavior and hacking. I understand your concerns about current security measures, especially when you feel like you have to constantly change your passwords and log back in to all your devices. It's definitely a hassle, and I can understand why going through it over and over again can be irritating.

What we can do at the moment is to keep our accounts as secure as possible. The official documentation provides several suggestions, please refer to:

How to help keep your Microsoft account safe and secure.

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