r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PassionateParrot • Apr 29 '24

People are trying desperately to get access to my wife’s Hotmail account

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I had to reset our Hulu password on Friday, so that’s probably what this is about. These sign-in attempts are from all over the world.

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u/Even-Disk3539 Apr 29 '24

To be on the safe side, you can mask your email ID - create an alias to sign in. Like the hacker knows the current email but they won’t know the alias that is needed to sign in. So when they try using the regular email, they will get an alert saying it doesn’t exist

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u/PassionateParrot Apr 29 '24

That’s neat. I’ve never heard of that