Closing an old email account may help you stay organized, but when it comes to Yahoo Mail, it may actually be a security necessity. Yahoo!’s been in the news as of late for some not-so-great revelations. They evidently built a tool to search customer email, per request of U.S. government agencies. They had more than 500 million accounts hacked. And now they’ve had 1 billion accounts hacked. You might be interested in closing down your Yahoo! account Here in this guide to learn how to delete Yahoo! account permanently.
Deleting a Yahoo Mail account means not only that your emails will be removed and you’ll lose access to your account, but you’ll also no longer have access to your My Yahoo settings, your Flickr account and photos, and other data stored in Yahoo’s services. If you’re paying for any Yahoo subscription services, remember to cancel these subscriptions first to avoid unexpected payments. The same is true if you have a Flickr Pro membership.
Closing your Yahoo account will not cancel automatic charges associated with your account. Once you close your Yahoo Mail account, anyone who tries to send a message to the email address will immediately receive a delivery failure message. To avoid confusion and concern, be sure you tell your friends and contacts that you are about to close your Yahoo Mail account — both from the email address you plan to use in the future, so they can easily reply to reach you and from your Yahoo Mail address ,to make sure the message is received.
Yahoo! says the deletion process takes about 90 days to complete. If you want your data cleaned from Yahoo’s servers sooner than that, you’ll want to go through and delete your Yahoo! emails, Flickr photos, Yahoo! contacts, and more before completing the account termination process.
Yahoo! also warns some of your information “might possibly remain” in its records even after you’ve deleted your account. To learn more about what data could be left behind, visit Yahoo!’s Data Storage and Anonymization support page.
When you go through the previously mentioned process to delete your Yahoo! account, you are terminating the following:
Here are some important things to be aware of when it comes to deleting your Yahoo account:
Your account will be reactivated if you sign in to it within 30 days of closing it, with longer hold periods for accounts registered in Australia, India, or New Zealand (90 days), and Brazil, Hong Kong, or Taiwan (180 days).
Yahoo has a poor security record.
When any of your email addresses get compromised, hackers usually look out the databases of the stolen login details and try them on other sites. If you happen to reuse the same credentials for several accounts, such data breach would put all of them at risk.
Even if you don’t think that any of your account data might have been stolen, we advise checking how strong is your password and whether it’s been previously exposed in any data breaches. If you’re tired of Yahoo’s data breaches and the general confusion about its credibility, it may be time to take your online privacy into your own hands.
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