Windows 10: My Microsoft account was hacked email changed, and the person added 2FA and the mobile...

Kalub Dunn · May 20, 2023

So on the 15th of may I was playing Minecraft Java Edition and I was logged out, so I tried logging back in to no avail. That's when I went to Microsoft.com and I needed to log in, I typed in my email and I got an error message that said "there is not Microsoft account with this email address" so for the past few days I have been digging around to try and find out what happened. That's when I realized the account was hacked and compromised, the new email address was "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***" an email I have never seen, and I tried to changed the password for the account but the account has

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TheMailMan78 · May 20, 2023

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!

Rubi · May 20, 2023

Hacked email

Hi

If a spammer is using a hacked/spoofed email account to send out emails, then all you do is send a bounceback to the original hacked account, not the hacker/Spammer "he does not include his email in the list". The hacker/Spammer does not know it has been bounced back and you continue to recieve emails from them. However, all that has happened is that genuine people who have been hacked and have sent out these mass emails recieved bounce back emails that you or they can do noting about. "Apart from the obvious alert to change passwords"

To be honest, there is no real way to fight back unless you have specialised hardware or an exchange account so that spam is auto filtered before it is sent on to you.

If you are using online emails such as outlook, you can add emails to the blocked user or domain list, but spammers change so regularly and they still have your email address, so you cannot keep up.

Until email providers spend some money and provide realtime protection in there servers, we can do very little.

However, what you state in your post "2. change all your email passwords" is a great solution but everyone person needs to change their passwords and complexity on a regular basis to minimise / prevent email account hacking, but what % of the population do you think does that on a regular basis? This is where the weak link lies, even if password duration policies are set, they are mostly simple to remember passwords because we have so many password in our heads these days that we need a hard drive installed to remeber them all.

This said though, if it is junk email from companies etc, then you can bounce them back but most of the send email accounts are not monitored for email returns. "Please do not reply to this email"

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Thank you for this very clear explanation. Unfortunately, I do not have the kind of specialized hardware or exchange account to do what you suggest.

I find the subject interesting and what you wrote has added to my knowledge on the matter.

Regards.

DRDNA · May 20, 2023

email account hacked. please help

If you are using a Android or Ios ...ect. to check email (cell phone or even a tablet) then the breach is probably from this. If indeed this is true then it was probably an app that you installed that is doing it or it is snatching your PW....If you are using such a devise try to remove the account from the mobile device and then change your PW and see if it still gets hacked.

PW=password

Good luck!

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