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Questions about multiple abandoned accounts and posible compromised account.
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<blockquote data-quote="Wrecker4923" data-source="post: 1090375" data-attributes="member: 110877"><p>Hello, </p><p></p><p>Besides the excellent recommendations by @lnk and the bot, I'd suggest that the reasons to lock down / delete your accounts are:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Get rid of any personal information</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Get rid of any association to your identity</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Prevent communications as your identity/pseudonyms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Prevent access in general.</li> </ol><p>So, I would prioritize based on these and work on them a few at a time until you are done. What I would do is:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Delete / change all personal info, change the email to a throwaway address (or to an alias), change password to something random and long (20+ chars, your password manager should help you), and then delete the account.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If the account can't be deleted, and you think it should really be locked down, turn on TOTP 2FA. Don't use your phone. Use email alias 2FA, if TOTP isn't available.</li> </ol><p>DuckDuckGo has an unlimited alias service.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wrecker4923, post: 1090375, member: 110877"] Hello, Besides the excellent recommendations by @lnk and the bot, I'd suggest that the reasons to lock down / delete your accounts are: [LIST=1] [*]Get rid of any personal information [*]Get rid of any association to your identity [*]Prevent communications as your identity/pseudonyms [*]Prevent access in general. [/LIST] So, I would prioritize based on these and work on them a few at a time until you are done. What I would do is: [LIST=1] [*]Delete / change all personal info, change the email to a throwaway address (or to an alias), change password to something random and long (20+ chars, your password manager should help you), and then delete the account. [*]If the account can't be deleted, and you think it should really be locked down, turn on TOTP 2FA. Don't use your phone. Use email alias 2FA, if TOTP isn't available. [/LIST] DuckDuckGo has an unlimited alias service. [/QUOTE]
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