Windows 10: Re-activate MFA through Authenticator for my hotmail account

Dawn Livingston · Apr 18, 2024

I removed my Hotmail account from Authenticator because I was having issues. Now I've re-associated my work accounts successfully using QR code from my company, etc but I can't re-associate my Hotmail. When I try to add it manually, it asks me to log in using Authenticator to do it but I'm already IN Authenticator so can't authenticate that way. It doesn't give me an option to enter a password. Anyone know how to do this? I really need it because I use Hotmail for many things.

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Brink · Apr 18, 2024

Your password does not matter - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) does

Your pa$$word doesn’t matter—Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is the best step you can take to protect your accounts. Using anything beyond passwords significantly increases the costs for attackers, which is why the rate of compromise of accounts using any MFA is less than 0.1 percent of the general population.

All authenticators are vulnerable

There is a broad range of mechanisms to break authenticators. That doesn’t make all authenticators equally vulnerable. Costs vary massively by attack type, and attacks that preserve anonymity and don’t require proximity to the target are much easier to achieve. Channel-Jacking and Real-Time Phishing are the most dominant ways we see non-password authenticators compromised.

Channel independent, verifier impersonation-resistant authenticator types—such as smartcards, Windows Hello, and FIDO—are incredibly hard to crack. Given an overall strong authentication rate of only about 10 percent, doing any form of MFA takes you out of reach of most attacks. Turn on MFA now and start building a long-term authenticator strategy that relies on “phish proof” authenticators, such as Windows Hello and FIDO.

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Hisfan Nazief · Apr 18, 2024

MFA Accounts in Authenticator is lost after resetting phone

Hi,

I used to store various kinds of accounts in the Authenticator app to perform MFA (Multi Factor Authentication). But my phone broke last week, and had to be totally resetted to 0.

Alas, I have to reinstall my apps. When I reinstall Authenticator, all my registered accounts were gone, BUT my accounts still demanded the code generated in Authenticator.

Any way to solve this issue?

Regards

Polarman · Apr 18, 2024

Hotmail accounts posted online

Thousands of Hotmail passwords have been hacked and posted online, according to reports.

See this arcticle for more details:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Phishing attack targets Hotmail

I suggest that you change your password if you use any "Live" accounts.

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