Well, I thought I knew everything about Hotmail or Outlook.com there was to know, but instead I was talking to a friend today who said that a month or so ago, someone tried to access his account from Chili. Wait, what?! how does he know this?

Your Microsoft Account stores all the successful and unsuccessful log in attempts in your profile for you to view at any time. Simply browse over to https://account.live.com and log in, then click on Recent Activity. You can scroll through each one if you want, or just scroll until you find an Incorrect Password Entered or a weird Location. Like this one in my account:

Recent Activity

Wow, someone attempted to log in to my Outlook.com account from Poland, good thing I have 2-factor auth enabled. So if they did have my password for whatever reason, they’d still need my cell phone to actually get the second auth factor… which I have right here with me… aka, not in Poland.

Kind of nice there is an audit trail. If one of the successful log ins wasn’t you, you can contest it right there and Outlook.com will help you take evasive action!

Have fun snooping on your snoopers!

Tech Tips By Sean Daniel