Heads Up! Your Burner Google Account Risks Deletion
If you have a burner Google account that you created more than 2 years ago for one-off signups never to be revisited again, you may be up for a surprise coming this holiday period. This is according to the recently updated Inactive Account Policies . Ruth Kricheli, The VP of Product Management at Google recently announced the changes on company's blog. According to Ruth, untouched accounts are at risk of getting compromised despite best security practices. The reason being old or unprotected or common passwords being used for such accounts.Ruth also detailed the approach company is taking to remove inactive accounts. According to Ruth: The policy has taken affect immediately but the account deletion would defer till December 2023 It would be a phased approach where accounts that were created but never used would be cleaned up first For each affected account, the company would try to communicate via the account's email and alternate email addresses before the actual delet