What's Russia want with my Email.....

[Betty88]

Got this in my email this morning, Microsoft thinks (or could be fishing) someone was working at my account it reads:

Microsoft account

Unusual sign-in activity
We detected something unusual about a recent sign-in to the Microsoft account *******@****com. To help keep you safe, we required an extra security challenge.
Sign-in details:
Country/region: Russia
IP address: 91.122.208.88
Date: 7/4/2017 12:54 AM (EST)
If this was you, then you can safely ignore this email.
If you're not sure this was you, a malicious user might have your password. Please review your recent activity and we'll help you take corrective action.
Review recent activity


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Thanks,
The Microsoft account team

*************************************
What you guys think?-Betty88

[ck4829]

1. Good question, something similar happened to me back in December

The account in question is a Facebook 'listening' account I only use to deconstruct right wing rhetoric. It says Ukraine, but this is the region that Putin's little green army men took over.

[forgotmylogin]

2. I'm sure you know this...

But that is the email that happens when someone tried and failed to access your account or did access your account and changed your password from a computer that Windows and Google respectively didn't recognize as one of the normal locations you access from.

Log in yourself and change your password and security questions if you are able.

[Betty88]

5. Thank you

I was able to log in directly to Microsoft. So I guess if its real they could not get past my super secret password . I did log in and changed my password everything looked ok.

[MineralMan]

3. I think that you should not Click Here.

That's what I think.

It's a phishing email.

If you want to check your email account, go directly to your email provider and check there for messages to you. Clicking on blind links in emails will probably take you to a place that looks like your email provider's page, but is actually a phishing exploit page.

Just don't click on links in emails. Go to the site for yourself and see if there are alerts or messages to you.

[HAB911]

4. correct, assume it is fake

verify via methods independent of this email

[Igel]

6. Probably nothing.

Look, a hack a few years ago netted over a million credit card numbers.

Yahoo had millions of email address passwords/etc. stolen.

Was each and every person in those hacks an individual target? No. They scaped the credit card information they could, and packaged it and sold it--or just wanted to scare the companies ("scare," "terrorize," what's in a word?).

With email addresses come passwords. If I use Igel123 for my user ID on my gmail account with password "geeI'mswell" what's to say that my user ID at my Bank of America account where I keep my $5 million isn't Igel123 with password "geeI'mswell"? Suddenly that information is useful. And you know what, a bot can both hack my email account and port that info over into a different piece of malware, one that can look at bank accounts.

Or maybe they get nothing from BoA. Instead they find that Igel123's account has personal information that they can use. Or maybe another 200 email addresses. Keep on mining, something useful may come up: some important person's information, a juicy bank account, credit card info, etc., etc. Depends where they go after they get into your email.

[HAB911]

7. What Its Like When Pro Phishers Assail Your Inbox

https://www.wired.com/story/phishing-attempts-email-inbox/?mbid=nl_6317_p2&CNDID=30772003