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.

  • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    This is normal. All of my accounts have looked like this for years. So I imagine every account with Microsoft will see this bombardment of someone trying to get in.

    It’s not just Microsoft - every server on the internet with an open port gets bombarded all of the time. It’s just the way of the internet. So if you move your account to another platform it’ll see the same bombardment as it does now.