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kevin88
Aug 30, 2021Copper Contributor
Horrible Support from Microsoft Escalation Team
My Microsoft 365 account got hacked. And daily I tried to get updates from Microsoft Team on what exactly the escalation team has done. Nothing. Been 55 hours or more. Meanwhile the hacker probably ...
kevin88
Aug 30, 2021Copper Contributor
Yes, had phone with security enabled. The hackers got past that. They removed the phone and email security challenges, and changed to their own.
pvanberlo
Aug 30, 2021MCT
That's pretty amazing! Do you have any idea how they got past that? I mean, they'd either need to have access to your phone or perform something like sim swapping to be able to use SMS authentication.
Sorry that I can't be of any help with Microsoft, but I suppose for awareness it's good to have an idea what happened.
Sorry that I can't be of any help with Microsoft, but I suppose for awareness it's good to have an idea what happened.
- kevin88Aug 30, 2021Copper ContributorNo idea. And no answer from Microsoft. I only saw SMS (again much later) saying that my security phone been removed. And then very very much later email to say my security email been changed.
There was even delay in informing the user! Compare to instant notification by Google and Facebook on possible breaches, especially if the request is out of the norm from Russia! Where I not ever been to,