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That Yahoo account and its data is probably long gone considering Yahoo deletes inactive accounts

• carapace 4y ago
  That's one of the things I think about. I figure there's a non-zero chance that various groups or interests may have hacked Yahoo and stolen (a copy of) the data before they erased it. I wonder if, out there in some spy agency or pirate kingdom, the legal and illegal and lost-to-public databases linger in a kind of limbo. Perhaps one day some team of archeologists sussing out the tomb of some unknown king might find a hoard of data...