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Yahoo is so frustrating I got the email this morning regarding the hack, I've not used Yahoo for a long, long, long time, so figured I would go and delete my a
by djhworld 10y ago
Yahoo is so frustrating
I got the email this morning regarding the hack, I've not used Yahoo for a long, long, long time, so figured I would go and delete my account.
So I log in, password in 1password is incorrect, no big deal I go to reset it. They send me an email, I reset the password then go through the account deletion process. It tells me my account is "deactivated" and will be deleted in 90 days
...Once that was done I just so happened to look through my emails to see what Yahoo had sent me in the past and I saw that I had undergone the exact same procedure (deleting my Yahoo account, presumably after news about another hack) about 3 months ago but completely forgotten about it.
So what I must have done today was relogged into my 'deactivated' account that I 'deactivated' back in September, which caused it to become active again, then issued a 'deactivate' request again, so now I have to wait ANOTHER 90 days for it to be deleted.
I've made a note of this fact this time to avoid relogging into Yahoo again...
- mtgx 10y agoYes, that's worse than Facebook, which does the same thing, but for 30 days.
- keehun 10y agoIf your account name is related to identifiable to you in any way and could potentially be used to spoof your identity, you shouldn't delete it because Yahoo will let a new user take your account's address.