[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is there a reason Micosoft servers would acc...
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       Ask HN: Is there a reason Micosoft servers would access my account
       via IMAP?
        
       I have a Microsoft Live account created for my kids to play
       Minecraft. Yesterday I got a strange security warning telling me
       that someone tried to log into it and the account was locked.  I
       managed to unlock it via 2FA, and looked at the log they made
       available. It reported a "strange" login from the USA (I'm from
       Europe) and the IP address which I looked up via WHOIS and it
       appears to be an internal IP of Microsoft itself.  The access type
       was IMAP. Is it possible that it was just MS servers moving stuff
       around? Do they really have to authenticate as users? Is this a
       common thing?  I was presented with options to select if that was
       me or not. I selected not, hopefully it doesn't mess up anything.
        
       Author : babuskov
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2022-07-13 22:46 UTC (15 minutes ago)
        
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