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Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked (www.dexerto.com)
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Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their Microsoft account.

Streamer Joshua Khane shared the situation on X, claiming Microsoft deleted both his account and associated OneDrive storage even after confirming he was the account’s owner and that it had been compromised.

In the post, he wrote: “Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive!!?? After acknowledging that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised? 25 f****** years of data, thousands of euros spent on games?? My son’s baby pictures? gone.”

He continued: “All because Microsoft couldn’t bring back a compromised account?? One of the biggest companies ever couldn’t do that, so they just deleted that s*** like it was nothing?? F****** shame on you!!”

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (15 children)

If it worked properly I would have no problem telling people to do that. You may show people how to back up to a hard disk, but they'll likely not do it. A service that does the backup automatically without the user having to do anything is very useful.

The problem is that it doesn't work properly.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I would never tell anyone to store their most important files only in one place! On top of that, the one place being not your own computer?!

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Computer + cloud backup seems a pretty sensible solution to me. But I'm talking about people who are really not into computers.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh totally. But this thread and the comment you replied to are talking about using ONLY someone else’s computer as a storage location, not redundancy.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I do agree, using only cloud backup storage is a bad idea.

Sorry; did not mean to molest anyone.

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