cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12063839

Someone keeps trying to access my MS account

Like the title says, I’ve got yesterday an email with a code to access my Microsoft account and that made me suspicious because I wasn’t trying to login to my account. When I looked at the login attempts I saw that someone else was trying to access my account, I changed my password, activated TFA. Thinking of going through and buying a physical key like yubico to further secure my account. Any tips are appreciated.

  • @fluckx
    18•9 months ago

    I checked out my old Hotmail account and there’s somebody in china trying to access it non stop.

    It’s protected with a strong password and 2fa. But it still makes me uneasy. I just wish I could geo block the attempts or something.

    • @daft61lunacyOP
      7•9 months ago

      Geo block would be great on unsuccessful logging in.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿English
        8•9 months ago

        you mean like fail2ban? a standard POSIX package since the 90s? that kinda paradigm that MS has no concept of?

        • @daft61lunacyOP
          3•9 months ago

          What’s more annoying is that it’s been happening since January 21st and no notice from MS.

    • @[email protected]
      3•9 months ago

      Ita the same for me. I only have my old hotmail as its tied to my xbox account. Someone from china is attempting to get access every day.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Contact Microsoft. If your lucky they can fingerprint the person doing this and block them (if your lucky)