Account activity should I be worried?

Hi all, I was just checking through my microsoft activity and came across this today,should I be worried over this? as I'm UK and not germany! I'm assuming it's someone trying to get into my account but don;t know for certain

Don't think of it as a yes/no be worried but rather a scale of alertness. Such as no activity you're good. With a little suspicious activity you raise your risk level. Meaning there are people, bots, and automation out on the internet probing services and even attempting authentications, so while it's good to be suspicious of the activity like this it is not a 'red alert' type scenario.

As a precaution make sure you have 2FA enabled and don't blindly accept 2FA. Honestly have 2FA enabled on any system that has personal information, is a form of communication, has financial data or can make financial transactions. A password manager is also very helpful to ensure you have unique passwords on all mentioned and unmentioned services. Reusing the same passwords can lead to credential stuffing attacks and has lead to countless breaches.

Harleygjc said:

Hi all, I was just checking through my microsoft activity and came across this today,should I be worried over this? as I'm UK and not germany! I'm assuming it's someone trying to get into my account but don;t know for certain

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I have several "unsuccessful" attempts every day. As long as the attempts are unsuccessful, you shouldn't be too concerned, if at all. As noted before, 2FA is a good defense to protect your account.

I get this, every day every hours, for the last many months. I got tight security, no location Ever, unique e-mails & basically everything OFF. Still happening, can`t figure it out. I also use Authenticator.

Suspecting its Win trying to log in somehow somewhere or app but not working; My PC is setup to show its from germany no matter where i use it.

Maybe i should change the e-mail/user and it might stop, but overall just a nuisance.
I also get the One Drive daily activity but my PC has NO One Drive, fully disabled. Another unknown.

weaselciuy01 said:

I get this, every day every hours, for the last many months. I got tight security, no location Ever, unique e-mails & basically everything OFF. Still happening, can`t figure it out. I also use Authenticator.

Suspecting its Win trying to log in somehow somewhere or app but not working; My PC is setup to show its from germany no matter where i use it.

Maybe i should change the e-mail/user and it might stop, but overall just a nuisance.
I also get the One Drive daily upload something but my PC has NO One Drive, fully disabled. Another unknown.
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Did you read my post? As I stated, this is not unusual. It is almost always associated with a bot trying several different email addresses to gain access to unprotected accounts.

Thanks for the info,I got two factor on my online banking and my steam acct,all my accts have different passwords as well! and they are totally different to each other,no chance of anyone guessing,I've not got anything else which is of any importance,so I'll just ignore it as such and just treat it as you said,bots trying to get in! thanks for the heads up

Sir_George said:

Did you read my post? As I stated, this is not unusual. It is almost always associated with a bot trying several different email addresses to gain access to unprotected accounts.

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no, i did not. You posted while i was getting a picture ready; either way i`m not worried. Only gave an example & my train of thought about it.
Have had it like this for the last 2-3 years.