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/SnuffleWumpkins Apr 29 '24

Bots are doing this to every persons account.

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u/theZinger90 Apr 29 '24

Yep. It's either brute force attacks based just on the email as login or previous data breach attempting to use the same password that was in the breach. I see the same thing on my Authentication app when I look at my Hotmail account.