Hotmail Account Recent Activity

Greetings,

I just went to my hotmail account that I rarely use but I've noticed there are attempted login every hour or  so bimbo or bimbos are trying to login into my account 

Incorrect password entered...why is this happening ? my old password was good, but I changed it just incase and I have 2FA security Yubico Key

Cheers

Edited by Marko65, 06 February 2024 - 08:33 PM.

Hi, it happens for all sites and services.

1) they get your info and stuff and start spamming your contact list masquerading as you with junk or attachments that hold malware or worse.

They get enough info they can try to slip you something that will start ransomware.

Take control as they just like your name/handle.

(lost my twitter that way, they forgot password so email came back to me which allowed me to log in and change and undo what they did and have never used it since)

2) they are now in a internal aspect of the mail client which now lets them try getting in deeper to the site.

You can check your email and passwords if have been found : https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Edited by Pkshadow, 07 February 2024 - 03:08 AM.

They try your [username] + [old password] on many services to see if it will work.  This is called Credential Stuffing.  If you see many attempts, they try other password variations.  It's kind of an educated guess brute force.

Thank you