Microsoft Support says there's nothing they can do about mass authenticator spam

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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9 Comments

CameronDev@programming.dev · 15 pts · 60d (2 replies)

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

dariusj18@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 60d

No, there are ways to get to the authenticator notification. It is in the forgot password flow.

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 60d

This was my first thought, but it still happened after changing passwords.

Godort@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 60d (2 replies)

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

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 60d (1 reply)

Nah they just hit forgot password and you still get a prompt

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 8 pts · 60d

Genius implementation

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 60d

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.

Piatro@programming.dev · 4 pts · 59d

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.

Marija_@programming.dev · 2 pts · 26d

Users deserve better controls than "just ignore it."