Windows 11 This is what happens if your Microsoft account is hijacked -- isn't it?

[John Yinz]

Last month, my Microsoft account was hacked. (I realized this when PayPal sent $200 to Microsoft for Xbox software, and I don't have an Xbox. When I tried signing-in to my Microsoft account, the password didn't work and the password reset validation never arrived in my email because the intruder had written their own address into my profile.) Eventually -- after chatting with at least 10 different Microsoft agents on at least 6 different evenings -- it became clear that (1) there was no possible way to "recover" the hijacked account; and (2) I could not disassociate my devices from the "bad

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