Someone is hard at work

[Krome]

Hey guys,

 

Someone is trying hard to hack my Microsoft Live account.  When I log into my Microsoft account, nothing is out of the ordinary.  What should I do?  Is this just phishing?  I didn't click the link but hover over it and it belongs to Microsoft.  WOT does not report a red circle.  Should I report to Microsoft?  Should I be concern?  What would you guys do?

 

 

 

 

 

[siah1214]

Change your password, enable two factor authentication. 

[Krome]

I have two factor authentication in place already. But I get those mail sent to my gmail.  Not sure what's going on.

[The Evil Overlord]

There is an option somewhere on the website to have a live chat with Microsoft,

I usually contact them via logging in to their (old) hotmail.com address (usually gets redirected) and them ask via the chat to find out what's going on.

Usually they'll lock out advanced features leaving only the basic send/receive mail for a month, after you give them new credentials to update your details.

After the month has passed you can get all the other features back automatically, (which I don't know what they are, as I don't use them)

They're actually reasonably helpful

(I went through a similar incident)

[Richard Burtov]

Have a look at the activity log in your MS account and that will show the IP addresses of where these are coming from.

[Xahid]

It's happening with me too, (from facebook/gamil/hotmail), I just report them (as it mentioned). & that will works.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Maybe, just maybe....you shouldn't have installed windows 8 on a particular device with your account logged in, and then sold it. I can sell my laptop right now, but I'm still signed in, and the new owner wouldn't know any better. First thing they'd most likely do is refresh (thinking that they'd formatted C:) End users don't know that they need to sign into their own microsoft account, all they see is an email address......then next....next....etc. I'm just throwing it out there, so don't hate me. It is a scenario, however.

[Krome]

There is an option somewhere on the website to have a live chat with Microsoft,

I usually contact them via logging in to their (old) hotmail.com address (usually gets redirected) and them ask via the chat to find out what's going on.

Usually they'll lock out advanced features leaving only the basic send/receive mail for a month, after you give them new credentials to update your details.

After the month has passed you can get all the other features back automatically, (which I don't know what they are, as I don't use them)

They're actually reasonably helpful

(I went through a similar incident)

Have a look at the activity log in your MS account and that will show the IP addresses of where these are coming from.

Live account is very confusing. The best thing that I use that account is when I log into the mail.live.com directly or I will get lost. I got lost trying to find contact list.  So attempting to contact Microsoft is a lost cause for me. If I can live chat with them or find IP activity, that would be good.  Gonna have to play with the account.

 

Maybe, just maybe....you shouldn't have installed windows 8 on a particular device with your account logged in, and then sold it. I can sell my laptop right now, but I'm still signed in, and the new owner wouldn't know any better. First thing they'd most likely do is refresh (thinking that they'd formatted C:) End users don't know that they need to sign into their own microsoft account, all they see is an email address......then next....next....etc. I'm just throwing it out there, so don't hate me. It is a scenario, however.

Thanks but I am a Windows 7 user.  And yeah I do not like how that works.  I mean the computer literally hooked itself to your mail account.  Just a bad idea.

[Richard Burtov]

How to access your recent activity:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/Account/Security/recentactivity.aspx

[Tuskd]

Had the same problem with my account too some months ago. There were repeated attempts to access my account from Florida and Singapore. Changed my password and they were gone.

[Krome]

How to access your recent activity:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/Account/Security/recentactivity.aspx

Thanks.  I checked and see nothing out of ordinary.  Maybe the snapshot above contains fake phishing mail link.  But it does not appear it that way when I place the mouse over the link.