ooli@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

433

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

ooli@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.

Chat

adavis@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
9·
2 years ago
The Android app has done this for years too.

After connecting my (non Microsoft) email account to the Outlook Android app I noticed the login location was geolocated in the USA… I live in Australia.

Unfortunately there’s no way to turn it off.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

3.99K users / day
9.13K users / week
18.1K users / month
37.6K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
69.9K subscribers
14.8K Posts
618K Comments
Modlog