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This is quite common in large online games where accounts often sit unused, having only a few hours of total hours logged over years.
by MostAwesomeDude 13y ago
This is quite common in large online games where accounts often sit unused, having only a few hours of total hours logged over years.
- midnitewarrior 13y agoThis is a great strategy for gaming systems, a terrible strategy for accounts used as identity management and password recovery vectors. Let's say JamesSmith@yahoo.com used this email address long ago as his ebay recovery address, but really doesn't use his @yahoo account any more. I can register JamesSmith@yahoo.com, and use ebay's account recovery option to assign the ebay account a new password for an ebay account I have now stolen. This scenario isn't possible with an online game account name, as game accounts aren't used to recover bank passwords or other important account passwords.
- neilkelty 13y agoYes, but its unlikely that an online game account was associated as the password reset contact account for confidential financial/banking websites.