Hacked Microsoft Accounts Are Difficult or Impossible to Recover
A user reports that once a Microsoft account is compromised, recovering it is extremely difficult, describing the account recovery policy as effectively abandoning affected users. Reflects a widely known pain point in Microsoft's identity recovery process for compromised consumer accounts.
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