Locked out of account, useless support, finally got a case opened that just randomly closed with zero update, THIS IS THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER HELP ME

Ian 0 Reputation points
2026-11-10T23:26:44.77+00:00

Hello,

On august 18th the company I work for got hacked and my email and accounts got hacked as well, in just a minute the hacker was able to log into my old Microsoft account (made a new one just to try to get help) and was able to change all my passwords, emails, phone numbers and data. Microsoft never flagged it, never stopped it, I only got the notifications and by then it was too late. I am still being charged for game pass, I have had this account for ages and have progress in games and other stuff that I can not just lose. Every other service I got hacked on I was able to get back with zero issues because of how blatantly obvious the hack was, except Microsoft. Here begins my horror story of dealing with the joke that is Microsoft support and having to beg for help wherever I can.

It started with the account recovery helper, I would go through the automated help page, where I would be told there is no issue with my email, but when I try to login it says email not found. I Have all the emails the hacker used to get into my profile, so when I go through with the new changed email, I can begin a forum for account recovery. I would give all my info including credit cards, xbox id, birthday, and previous passwords and it would always respond INSTANTLY with "we can not recover and verify your account" which tells me that not a single human being has looked at this. I do this for a few days since you can only try 2 times per 24 hours, and get the exact same response, every time. I then try to do the same thing but through xbox and I get the exact same response.

Begrudgingly, I make a new Microsoft account to earn myself the privilege of starting a support case, I was even lucky enough to get to chat with a real person!!!!!!! (maybe you shouldn't have laid of those 60k people because this is a joke) After a very brief, but real review with my newfound human friend, she INSTANTLY recognizes the suspicious and malicious activity. She then sends me a forum to fill out that will escalate this to the higher ups for review. I fill out the forum, it asks me some more questions than what I was used to and I submit it.

Then begins my most recent email chain with Microsoft, they tell me that they need new info and I happily provide it, believing I might finally have a chance at getting my account back.

I then provided

4 known device ids

my windows machine device Ids

all of my xbox's serial numbers and device ids

all of my payment info

the entirety of all the content and apps I own on xbox

my password change history

all my previous information, emails, phones, etc

and 10 receipts of various purchases I had made on the account

I spent some time digging up all this information and was hoping that finally SOMEBODY would help me. they said up to 5 days for a response in the email asking for the info, it has been 4 days now and I sent a follow up because I never received a response to my info, and to my horror and dismay, I receive an email stating that my case had been closed and they had "tried to contact me and sent an email informing me of the closure" I HAVE RECEIVED NOTHING ACROSS ANY OF MY EMAILS, I have been watching my accounts like a F*CKING hawk day dreaming about the luxury of having basic support for an account that IM STILL PAYING FOR, so that I can FINALLY get my hacked account back

I'm running to the ends of the earth doing whatever I can to figure out how to get help for this and I'm at my limit, part of me wants to fly to Washington myself to talk to a real human

Please help me, I beg you

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