someone is trying to hack into my computer

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For the past week every 3 minutes I get a notice on my cell phone that someone is trying to get into my Outlook account. It's extremely annoying and would like very much if I could find a way of stopping them. I know that they will never be able to get into it since I changed the password to a language other than English and added three symbols.

I considered reciprocating but that just doesn't seem to be "Kosher" to me. Besides I wouldn't know how to do it. Is there anyway of stopping this problem?

What you can do to stop that person/entity... no idea. But I'd suggest you make your password as long as possible.
Add some more symbols to your password, since every additional symbol (*/{}][%-<>&$§; etc.) makes your password MUCH more difficult to guess. If you make a password like this with maximum length, it will probably never be guessed correctly. But of course you need to be able to remember it.
Eventually the "hacker" will have to give up or guess forever.

Bulletpoints:

-Make sure none of your account passwords are the same.

-Sentences are much stronger than phrases for passwords


-Use special characters for passwords.

Earthling and Rudin thank you very much for your help.

To get rid of the hackers I decided to remove Outlook from my telephone. Easy solution. Especially since I use the phone mainly to send text messages, not to access the internet.

That's terrible! Good for you for making a strong password. Make sure they didn't use your credit cards or anything.