Hotmail login issues last couple of months

[BumFLuff]

I've had my hotmail email for 23 years never had issue till last few months and now everytime I login from Chrome it tells me password used too many times try a different way being send my mobile a code, if I click that tells me its not avaliable. Today I can't login to hotmail from Chrome at all, if I switch to Firefox it works more than Chrome but not always. I dont change my password on Firefox and its fine vs same pw in Chrome I get msg saying used too many times, so same pw but different result depending on browser. I get the same issue if I install Outlook on phone. Any idea whats changed its getting to point I will have to setup a new email with different provider.

[Crumpet]

It’s been an absolute nightmare for me for the last 6-12 months. Constantly getting an email saying they think there’s been suspicious activity so they’ve locked my account. It then takes multiple attempts going through the same process to reset the password.

I’d love to know if there’s a way to migrate everything away to another provider as it’s just a mess.

[SV_WDC]

Could you try enabling Passkey? I've not had any of these issues. 2FA is probably a must these days

[Mr Whippy]

They're just hardening it to the point of it being unusable... with the side effect also being pushing everyone into having more of their device/devices and stuff reliant on their service.

I have a client who was using Dropbox move over to an MS service for their files etc. They sent me a link to join and they wanted face ID, an app on my iPhone etc, just to login on my PC. The client is now going to get the work delivered on USB sticks or via DropBox, or anything but using MS stuff.


I'm honestly just a few months from migrating away now and paying a decent provider for emails.

MS have just gone full-on invasive and evil for my tastes.


I get that email addresses are now a "very important thing" and under the MS umbrella/accounts you need to keep that specific thing secure, but it's them that's made it all that way for exactly the reasons of tracking and centralising and data minining.

All so they can sell you subs to stuff.


I've been paying some other pure email providers for a bit now and I'd rather pay them money than MS.

[malks222]

my wife found a solution to the constant ‘hack’ attempts or attempted log ins, you can change your log in details to something (anything) other than your email address.

currently you log ins/ sign in using your email- [e-mail]

but hotmail/ outlook/ microsoft allow you to change your log in to anything you want- js12345 becomes your new log in. so if someone tries to hack/ log in via ‘[e-mail]’ it won’t even recognise it as a log in. your email is still there, you just can’t log in that way.

made a huge difference to spam/ log in attempts!