After sending an email yesterday, I went back after to check the reply, only to get a prompt that my email is in use elsewhere andto recover it, need to receive a call or text from my Thai number which I cant do as I'm in Africa at the moment. I got to the partwhere you provide some information regarding the account on a form, and another email add where recovery code could be sent to.

Seems the new email account has a problem too.

I don't know if it's just the email account or my iPad that has issues. I don't think I have enough protection on the iPad and I look at adult sites now and then on it( stupid, I know, but family is overseas, bored)

It's a hotmail account. It have all my referrals, bank accounts and other sites. I don't do any online banking but every alert and periodic statement go there.

People are getting questionable emails from me now,

What do I do?

After 3 or more trys to enter your account it usually shuts the account down so do that to shut the account down and stop others from using it..hopefully

then from log in page click on reset password or can not acess account

If can not use sms option go for security questions or other options is a small questionare about your account that they should reply to...

good luck

My hotmail account hacked few times already but all that happens is everybody in my contacts list gets junkk mail from me??

<deleted> hackers.....

Don't that, it's now blocked, I have sent in Theo recovery form. At least if I can't get in , they can't get in as well.

Quite disconcerting.

My Thai landlord in Pattaya is not much IT knowledgeable.

Came to me a few months back to ask for advice about his Hotmail account.

I could see by the puzzled queries of some of his contacts that it had been hacked and was sending garbage to his contacts. BTW my landlord is watching a lot of (dodgy) porn !! LOL

Then, shortly after, he came back to me to say that Hotmail had blocked his account and sent him instructions (that he didn't quite understand) on how to recover it if he wanted to. At Hotmail hey must be used to innocent parties getting transformed in spam sending zombies. But, like the OP says, cancelling the account is often not practical due to the amount of data info that would be lost.

It was a convoluted affair to go through the steps that ended up with Microsoft sending a code by SMS that had to be entered in the final step.

He seems to be hack-free since 555

My own Hotmail was hacked once (weak password, I guess) but used only one time to send a suspicious commercial message to all my contacts. Changed password immediately and sent an apology to my contacts.