Can security on a Microsoft account email address be compromised?

[Guest FormerMSDev]

There have been recent attempts to connect to my MS account which the records in View Account Activity show as unsuccessful but these have coincided with very suspicious phishing attacks on the same mailbox.The account activity shows multiple "IMAP Autosynch" attempts obviously from VPN disguised locations such as Bulgaria, Syria etc.Shortly after these, phishing emails targeting specific companies that I deal with have been sent to the same email account.A couple may be coincidental, but there are just too many specific ones for it not to imply that someone is reading the emails in my account

 

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