Deleting digital accounts that you rarely or never use not only reduces the amount of clutter in your online life—it keeps you safer too. Every extra account you've got is an extra target for a hacker ...

If you’ve got an old Gmail or Google email account that you haven’t been using, you’ll want to log on quickly before it is deleted. Google in December will begin deleting personal email accounts that ...

Google Will Start Deleting Inactive Free Accounts Soon. What You Need to Know and Steps to Take Your email has been sent Log in to your rarely used free Google accounts periodically to keep them ...

Now is the time to act if you want to keep a Google account you haven't used in a while. Starting Dec. 1, Google will start deleting "inactive" accounts — that is, accounts that haven't been used in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Mar. 2, 2025: This story, originally published Feb. 28 ...

Google will start deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts next week, on December 1st. This is a planned move that Google announced back in May, with the company explaining that accounts that haven ...