email hacked 10 years ago, what can i d about recovering it or getting it deleted

[WesTooLoose]

so 10 plus years ago i had an email from msn associated with my real life name, it got hacked, i was a stupid kid and had no access or way to get it back, 10 years later im an adult trying to fight and get the email back or deleted to prevent defamation of my name.

i've tried microsofts tools,tey denied it so i dont know how much the hacker has done or what he used/is using my email for (he has it connected to his email and his phone number) i just relly want the email in my control to prevent future defamation or flat out deleted to prevent my name from causing trouble

[spartaman64]

if you dont have banking info or someone on that email i wouldnt worry too much about it

[WesTooLoose]

Just now, spartaman64 said:

if you dont have banking info or someone on that email i wouldnt worry too much about it

i had an apple id connected to it, with purchases i made. aside from that it's the fact that it's my full first and last name as the email

[WesTooLoose]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

I mean you can try too take legal action, or just move on and stop caring.

would legal action actually do anything in regards to a msn account (that you have no idea who stole it) with a persons full name?

[WesTooLoose]

3 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I mean if MS isn't willing to help you could potentially take that route.

i have filled out the report and i cant get in contact with an actual person to properly deal with it heck if i can talk to a human and not an autamted machine or voice it would be perfect

[WesTooLoose]

2 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Microsoft help desk is probably your best bet. 

i hate to ask but can you link the help desk?, i've talked to the automated message person and when they suggest to email support all it does is open a new tab and open outlook it does nothing else

[colonel_mortis]

I don't know how unique your name is, but unless it's exceptionally unusual I don't think there's any chance that it would end up defaming [is that a word?] you. I could easily create an email address with your name and start sending messages - there is nothing to prove that it is you. Far more likely though is that the attacker took your email to try and compromise any accounts that are linked to it, then discarded it and have long since forgotten about it. Linking a phone number would just be a mechanism to try and stop you from kicking them out.

 

I would also be somewhat surprised if Microsoft support will be able to help you at this point - after 10 years, they probably don't have many of the old details that they could use to authenticate you.

[WesTooLoose]

2 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

I don't know how unique your name is, but unless it's exceptionally unusual I don't think there's any chance that it would end up defaming [is that a word?] you. I could easily create an email address with your name and start sending messages - there is nothing to prove that it is you. Far more likely though is that the attacker took your email to try and compromise any accounts that are linked to it, then discarded it and have long since forgotten about it. Linking a phone number would just be a mechanism to try and stop you from kicking them out.

 

I would also be somewhat surprised if Microsoft support will be able to help you at this point - after 10 years, they probably don't have many of the old details that they could use to authenticate you.

well shit, i guess if i really want to get my old purchases to work i have to keep trying to crack my apple id or the easier route find a drm cracking tool

[colonel_mortis]

2 minutes ago, WesTooLoose said:

well shit, i guess if i really want to get my old purchases to work i have to keep trying to crack my apple id or the easier route find a drm cracking tool

I might be wrong, so I wouldn't give up all hope, but it does seem relatively unlikely to me that Microsoft will be able to help at this point.

[WesTooLoose]

1 minute ago, colonel_mortis said:

I might be wrong, so I wouldn't give up all hope, but it does seem relatively unlikely to me that Microsoft will be able to help at this point.

meh aside from defamation (which i doubt he cares about my email after your explanation) i just wanted to get the drm protected purchases from itunes to work with my current account.

 

what i'm wondering is why would a hacker be interested in a random 12 year olds email account
 

[colonel_mortis]

26 minutes ago, WesTooLoose said:

meh aside from defamation (which i doubt he cares about my email after your explanation) i just wanted to get the drm protected purchases from itunes to work with my current account.

 

what i'm wondering is why would a hacker be interested in a random 12 year olds email account
 

Most likely they don't know who owns the account. The majority of account takeovers take a list of passwords that were leaked by one site, and try them on a bunch of other sites to try and compromise as many accounts as they can. Emails are particularly valuable because you can then reset the passwords on other accounts.

 

The sorts of accounts that they are really after are things like PayPal (where they can get actual money), Twitter (which they can sell to use for advertising bots), games (they can sell the accounts or items from them), and other stuff like that.