Please help me secure an ancient email address. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I still use my first ever made email address, at this point it's pushing 28 years old. However I have a major problem. I can rarely log into it anymore. There are so many attempts to login to the account daily from whoever out there that wants to gain access that the login is normally locked out for a period of time. At this point I've moved everything of financial value off of it as someone did get access once, but there are still plenty of random little things I'd like to hang on to it for.

I know I can just make a new one and ditch that one as a quick solution, but I figured i'd ask a wider community if they had any insights I might not have. It's a Microsoft account, and my windows is tied to it, but I'm pretty sure I can just migrate that to something new.

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[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah so I had this as well. Every day or so I'd get locked out, had to do the sms unlock thing which sometimes wouldn't work.

What I did is I added an alias to the account, made it the primary and removed login priviliges from the 'old' one.

For all the things you still use the address, it'll be fine. It's just MS based logins that's you'd have to change.

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