Pc Hack Question

Question

Hi everyone, I’ve been posting a lot of questions recently to hope for some help with them. If a pc is hacked or infected with malaware that causes hacked access to the pc and you change all your passwords on your phone that has the same one drive account will they be able to find those newly changed passwords on the compromised computer or no since i changed my microsoft password? In other words my question is does onedrive store my passwords even if i change them? Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks and when you change a password on any site on a device linked with your one drive, does one drive save that password or is that only saved in microsoft data centers?

Answer 2

Hello I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

Your OneDrive password is the same as your MS Account password which is changed online in Microsoft secure servers. Make sure it's a password that you remember but has enough complexity it is harder to crack.

You can also consider at least temporarily putting two factor authentication on your MS Account which uses a code to your mobile, and would require a hacker to spoof your phone which most won't bother with:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-two-step.... Your financial and other important accounts should also offer this.

Here is a tutorial that covers the basics on how to prevent, detect and respond to hacking: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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