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.
AFAIK consumer MS accounts don’t allow you to lock down access to a single IP. Adding MFA may help. If that doesn’t work, contact MS support and see if they can add a geolock to the account to only allow auth attempts from your country.
MS may also be able to change the email address then add your old one as an alias.