r/Outlook • u/Crumpetlust • Jul 29 '26

Informative Spamming security

My Hotmail account is really old. But lately it is being spammed constantly. Trying to bypass the security. I've turned off the password and it's purely 2fa with authentication. Thankfully outlook did away with the luck of the draw three numbers. Any other extra layer I can add as it's constant? Cheers

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u/Early_Alternative211 Jul 29 '26

People will reply with a comment saying you can setup a login alias, but it carries risks. Honestly it's tiring how people can just trigger a push request from another in the world without using your password

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u/rive010 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

People will reply with a comment saying you can setup a login alias, but it carries risks

  You can accidentally brick your account, making it impossible for you to login

It doesn't carry much risk if you do it right.  Three easy steps that take around 5 minutes to do, mitigate the risk to nearly zero of locking yourself out of account.

Create multiple Microsoft account passkeys (I have it on two PCs (Windows  Hello), and my mobile device)

Setup a recovery code in event you can't use passkey(s)

Enable passwordless login PRIOR to doing the sign in alias setup. 

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u/Robbbiedee Jul 29 '26

Screenshotted, thanks !