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My friends' account suddenly appeared on my pc instead of mine

Anonymous
2023-12-25T21:10:30+00:00

Hey,

A couple of days ago I came home to find my windows logon screen asking me for a pin to an account that isn't mine.

After managing to get into the pc using an admin account I found that my microsoft account was deleted from windows users and that there is a new partition on the hard drive. Event viewer logs seemed crazy as well...
Eventually I realized that this account belongs to a friend of mine from college. We both have no idea how that could have happened since he never logged into my pc or even been near it.
Someone told me that Moodle (the study platform that is used by our college) does some kind of synchronization between it's login credentials and microsoft account. Me and my friend did log into each other's Moodle accounts here and there but on that day he only logged into his own account on his own pc.
Also given the fact that we always use the web version of Moodle I find this option quite weird, but still this currently seems like the only possible explanation to what happened.
Is there anyone who can help with this topic?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-27T02:37:24+00:00

    Hi Anonymous,

    I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing this issue. As a Microsoft customer support agent, I can tell you that it's highly unlikely that Moodle is responsible for the synchronization of your friend's account to your PC. However, there are a few things you can try to resolve this issue:

    1. Check if your friend's account is still active on his own PC. If it is, ask him to log out of his account and then try logging into your PC again.
    2. Check if your Microsoft account is still active. If it is, try logging in with your Microsoft account and see if your profile is restored.
    3. If none of the above steps work, you can try resetting your PC to its default settings. This will erase all data on your PC, so make sure to back up any important files before doing so.

    Best regards,

    Qiuyang

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