Windows 10: Microsoft account hacked and email changed an no way of changing it back.

Back in October of 2022, during the microsoft info breach my account was hacked and my email was changed. I have done the recovery form and was able to confirm that I own the account, but every time i go to change the password it says the account does not exist. I cannot get into contact with a human at microsoft. Please help.

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Hacked microsoft account, changed email

My microsoft account has been hacked and the email has been changed. I can not log in to the account because email and password have been changed. I've tried contacting support but all i got from it was just to send the account recovery form but when i do i get back an email saying that "our automated system has determined that the information you provided was not sufficient for us to validate your account ownership".

 

email account hacked. please help

Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

Gmail
Outlook

The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!

 

Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.