Microsoft has announced some major changes for people who use personal accounts to sign into their Outlook email accounts. Starting on September 16, Outlook personal accounts will no longer support signing into them with what the company calls Basic Authentication, which is the old-fashioned user name and password method. , Microsoft says on that date, Outlook users including people who still get their emails via Hotmail.
com and Live.com must now access their accounts on either a supported mail or calendar app, or use the Outlook.com website.
These all use what the company calls Modern Authentication methods. Other apps such as the current Outlook apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, along with Apple Mail and Thunderbird also support Modern Authentication. In the post, Microsoft says: While Basic Auth was the standard for quite some time, it also made it easier for bad actors to capture a person’s login information.
This increased the risk of those stolen credentials being reused to gain access to a person’s email or personal data. Email-based cyberattacks have only increased with time, so we are requiring modern authentication for all Outlook customers to better help protect their personal accounts. The blog also described how Modern Authentication methods make signing into Outlook person email accounts safer: With Modern Authentication methods we apply additional backend process/tokens that users may not notice that add an extra layer of security.
Anyone who is atte.