Any else get a strange 'Microsoft accounts team' email this evening or recently claiming a 'Microsoft account password change'?
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Any else get a strange 'Microsoft accounts team' email this evening or recently claiming a 'Microsoft account password change'?
Got one this evening and I don't recall ever having a microsoft account (I don't use it), yet the email "seems" to have legit links and says it used my old mobile number which I cancelled 4 years ago to verify the password change.. Both my email address and old number were spot on in the email.. The IP address that requested the password change resolved to an optusnet node in victoria (I'm in SA)..
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Any else get a strange 'Microsoft accounts team' email this evening or recently claiming a 'Microsoft account password change'?
Got one this evening and I don't recall ever having a microsoft account (I don't use it), yet the email "seems" to have legit links and says it used my old mobile number which I cancelled 4 years ago to verify the password change.. Both my email address and old number were spot on in the email.. The IP address that requested the password change resolved to an optusnet node in victoria (I'm in SA)..
No idea. But it is very easy to create a Microsoft account without realising that’s what you’ve done. @CanvasesByPeter
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No idea. But it is very easy to create a Microsoft account without realising that’s what you’ve done. @CanvasesByPeter
@BenAveling According to google, microsoft accounts expire if not used for 2 years, I definitely haven't set up one or even used one in that time, I vaguely recall having to use a microsoft account to download a keyset to a very old logitech programmable remote, but that was around 14 years ago and 3 PCs ago, lol..
My guess is the drongos who stole a heap of Optus data in the optus breach a few years back are trying their luck with entering details on various sites.. though how microsoft "verified" a long-dead mobile number is anyone's guess...
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No idea. But it is very easy to create a Microsoft account without realising that’s what you’ve done. @CanvasesByPeter
@BenAveling I did some more digging today and it turns out that you can restore a microsoft account with just the phone number, so maybe someone else was assigned my old mobile number by a carrier and tried registering it with a microsoft account not realising it'd already been used with one.. That's the most likely thing I can think of to explain it.
