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Someone keeps trying to access my MS account (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by daft61lunacy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I saw that this morning from 6AM to 1:30PM had people from IPs all over Europe trying to login. Failing luckily but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

Actually after looking at the logs it non-stop every hour for days and days. Odd that I only got like 7 emails about the code this morning and not the thousands of other times.

[–] daft61lunacy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m seeing Poland, Germany, Turkey and China.

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Fwiw I had a similar flurry of failed attempts from exactly those countries a few days ago.