New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a reason Micosoft servers would access my account via IMAP?
Ask HN: Is there a reason Micosoft servers would access my account via IMAP?
6 by babuskov | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I have a Microsoft Live account created for my kids to play Minecraft. Yesterday I got a strange security warning telling me that someone tried to log into it and the account was locked. I managed to unlock it via 2FA, and looked at the log they made available. It reported a "strange" login from the USA (I'm from Europe) and the IP address which I looked up via WHOIS and it appears to be an internal IP of Microsoft itself. The access type was IMAP. Is it possible that it was just MS servers moving stuff around? Do they really have to authenticate as users? Is this a common thing? I was presented with options to select if that was me or not. I selected not, hopefully it doesn't mess up anything.
6 by babuskov | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I have a Microsoft Live account created for my kids to play Minecraft. Yesterday I got a strange security warning telling me that someone tried to log into it and the account was locked. I managed to unlock it via 2FA, and looked at the log they made available. It reported a "strange" login from the USA (I'm from Europe) and the IP address which I looked up via WHOIS and it appears to be an internal IP of Microsoft itself. The access type was IMAP. Is it possible that it was just MS servers moving stuff around? Do they really have to authenticate as users? Is this a common thing? I was presented with options to select if that was me or not. I selected not, hopefully it doesn't mess up anything.
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