Hotmail

[Anonymous]

Hotmail won’t accept my password, yet it’s the one I use?

[wasbit]

I suspect it’s their end John. It’s happened several times over the last few months.

Generally takes a day or two to clear.

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wasbit

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[Ed P]

Maybe you have been pwned and someone has changed your password — it has been known to happen.

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[The Duke]

Are you trying to make his panic ed?

Probably an ms glitch. There mail was never great.

[Ed P]

If John cannot get in via his Microsoft account link. Then I think it likely he has real problems!

[edit]

btw Hotmail has no reported problems for today. link

[wasbit]

As I said earlier, it’s a problem with Hotmail. It happened with about four of my accounts one after the other. Took a couple of days on each account & the problem went away.

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wasbit

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Dear Starfleet, hate you, hate the Federation, taking Voyager. - Janeway

[Bob Williams]

No problems for me on Outlook/Hotmail today. In fact my only problem is that every day I am receiving Adult Dating Site emails, always Junked by Outlook and then blocked by me.

But that is nothing to the amount of Scandinavian Spam I get on Gmail. (Spamdinavian?):) That is all in some Norse language or other, might enjoy it if I could understand it. 😉  :yahoo: I have asked Google about blocking it, far too much of it, have to see what they make of it.

I linked my Gmail and Hotmail accounts some time ago.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

If you and John use two step verification then I agree with your point Wasbit – probably a site problem.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all, for the points.

Not sure what happened, in the end I changed the password.

Hotmail sent a security code to my mobile (I had to enter it) as it went to my mobile I hope that’s a security, you can change the way to receive the code but I think, then you have to enter words only you know (mommy’s maiden name)

Hopefully it’s not easy to hack?

It was hacked before and sent emails to an MM forumite.

[Anonymous]

It’s happened again only days after changing the password.

Your account or password is incorrect. If you don’t remember your password, reset it now.

I went to ask Hotmail why, but changed my mind

All you have to do is fill out a simple TECHNICIAN HELP FORM and a technician will call you to help you out the next day. There is a service charge of £39.99 which you will have to pay to the technician after the issue has been resolved.

I give up

[Tippon]

Anonymous wrote:

It’s happened again only days after changing the password. Your account or password is incorrect. If you don’t remember your password, reset it now. I went to ask Hotmail why, but changed my mind All you have to do is fill out a simple TECHNICIAN HELP FORM and a technician will call you to help you out the next day. There is a service charge of £39.99 which you will have to pay to the technician after the issue has been resolved. I give up

How are you trying to log in? That sounds a lot like a scam to me. If you haven’t already, run an antivirus and anti malware scan, just in case.

[Anonymous]

I run regular but I will run again.

However it’s the same on the other rig, in Windows 10 also in Windows 7.

Often after a clean scan I backup, I will go to the beginning (first backup) and see

[Anonymous]

sos Tippon

I forgot to say I got to hotmail.co.uk it brings up Sign In I fill in the email add. Press next, enter password and press next. as a rule it signs in, however I get the above message and doesn’t sign in. I reset the password the other day and it worked, it worked also in thunderbird. But now it’s stopped signing in?

I have tried on backup 1 (recovery) it was the same, I have tried on 4 different setups (Windows 7 & 10) it’s still the same so I doubt it is malware or Virus

[Tippon]

Sounds like it’s just Hotmail being useless again then unfortunately 🙁

[Anonymous]

Tippon wrote:

Sounds like it’s just Hotmail being useless again then unfortunately ?

Tell me about it, no don’t bother I think I know.

[Ed P]

Humour me John – try to sign in via MSN.

See if you get the same errors.

Second – WHERE did you go to get Hotmail help, was this a result of Googling for sign-in help? A number of the Google links are just commercial organisations completely unconnected with M$.

[The Duke]

Your tech help is a scam, Ms don’t ask for money in these cases.

Strange it’s happening on two systems. My thirst thought would be a rouge ff/chrome pluggin redirecting you.

 

Im not sure how deep a browser plug in could go. I’d first try and login via edge/ie, but still the plug in may redirect that. But I’d defo try a different  browser first.

[Anonymous]

Ed
It has been tried on MSN with the same results. As you go MSN uses the same login as Hotmail/outlook

I did find the help from Google

Duke I have tried all browsers from FF – Edge I even have IE on 10 and tried that.

I again reset the password and all is fine (for now)

I had a scam phone call not long after, they knew my name, ok they can stab at a phone number but not my name, the mobile isn’t in my name?. Someone has sold my name and number and it may only be M$ that has them both?

Who knows, I won’t be resetting it again.

[Tippon]

I’ve been moving everything away from Microsoft and Yahoo, since Yahoo had the massive breach (twice!), and Hotmail played the password game with me a year or two back. I use Yahoo for anything that looks like it’ll spam me now, and Hotmail for a handful of sites like this, just because a few people have my Hotmail address. It might be worth you doing the same John.

[The Duke]

What he said.

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