As internet heavy user I organize my games, spams, and services in different email providers such as Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google due to the facility to organize my things. So, Microsoft has offered me a great feature to create an alias account along with to my main account.
FANTASTIC !!!
However, In few weeks ago I started to receive emails that were supposed to be mine but wasn’t. Later, I found out that a user has been using my outlook.com alias email that I’ve created to play my Blizzard games.
No worries, It's just an alias email, I thought. Nevertheless, I was wondering which sort of problem this would cause?
Even though I created the alias account for gaming purposes, somebody would create for interception purposes, why not?
At that moment I was thinking WTF Microsoft?! Then, I decided to do a test myself.
Most of all emails I was receiving in my alias account come from facebook in which the email was registered.
Only to illustrate, the test that I did was composed by resetting the Facebook password of the user which was using my alias email account.
Facebook did very well into creating different types of validations and security layers during my attempt to change the password resulting in my waive.On the other hand, Microsoft demonstrated that could have an issue related to users privacy and security what made me worried and create this new question, how secure my and other accounts are?
I’ll let you think more about it, and also think about what should be done…
All things considered, I'd say that Microsoft still not interested in solve this issue because I still receive emails from my shared-alias friend after 1 year by now.
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Cheers!
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