Help on Regaining Access to Hotmail

[Bruiser]

Hello everyone, I am an email address collector and I have a @hotmail.com address that I cannot access. It has been in over 100 data breaches and people very frequently try logging into the account so much that I can never use my password to login. The only way I can log onto it is to get a code sent to my email address, and after that, every time someone tries to login to that account, I get a code sent to my email and it keeps going until Hotmail prevents me from getting codes. For nearly two weeks and counting, it has been saying "You've requested too many codes today. Please try again tomorrow." without any change. Is there any other way I can get back onto the account? I appreciate anyone that can provide any assistance.

[RFK]

100 breaches of your hotmail account?

[xylon]

The situation is so bad!

[RFK]

It looks like DDOS of your account.

After you manage to login to your account (in a few hours or days) do this:

Let's say, your email address is xxxxxx@hotmail.com (it could be xxxxxx@outlook.com, it does not matter)

Go to https://account.live.com/names/manage and create an alias yyyyyy@outlook.com

Designate yyyyyy@outlook.com as a default alias

Go to https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/options/mail/forwarding and set old email alias xxxxxx@hotmail.com as a default "From:" address

Go to https://account.live.com/SignInPreferences and disable sign-in for xxxxxx@hotmail.com

Now, every attempt to login to xxxxxx@outlook.com triggers the error
"That Microsoft account doesn't exist. Enter a different account or get a new one."

See image https://i.postimg.cc/zvHpQkF0/error-no-account.jpg

You are still going to send by default from xxxxxx@hotmail.com
Obviously, keep yyyyyy@outlook.com completely private, use it for login only.

Of course, enable 2FA using TOTP (Authenticator) and/or hardware device (like Yubikey) regardless of everything else.

I got invalid attempts to login to my account from botnet twice an hour. After I implemented these changes, I got zero hacking attempts.

[Bamb0]

Originally Posted by xylon

The situation is so bad!

Yes a new email address/password may be needed so they cannot attempt to change it again!!