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Microsoft Support says there's nothing they can do about mass authenticator spam (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/demicrosoft@programming.dev
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Someone has been spamming the "login with authenticator" button on my email for a couple of days now.

Support says there's nothing I can do and that their "internal reporting" catches these people. Bullshit.

Anyway, so glad I started removing Microsoft from my life over a year ago. I just can't wait for the day I'm able to delete it all.

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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Change your password, someone has it. If you didn't have authenticator setup they would be in already.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I've been wondering why my authenticator is constantly pinged. It happened almost the same time I swapped phones, so I thought I had some weird setting wrong.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does this not mean that they have your password?

    I didn't think it was possible to log in with the authenticator as single factor

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    This is why I went back to totp rather than notifications. Drove me nuts about a year or two ago. Support couldn't do anything then either.

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Users deserve better controls than "just ignore it."

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