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It’s a bummer to find my e-mail between the leaked Adobe accounts. Especially after the ordeal I had to go through to have my Adobe account “deleted” months ago

by zoul 13y ago

It’s a bummer to find my e-mail between the leaked Adobe accounts. Especially after the ordeal I had to go through to have my Adobe account “deleted” months ago: You have requested that we deactivate your Adobe account. We have sent a request to the relevant team to process your request. Please note that you will lose access to Adobe services and support for which you have registered or paid for. You will not be able to obtain serial numbers for past purchases and the deactivation process may take up to ninety (90) days. Once completed, your adobe.com membership and all personal data will be deleted from our database. Adobe, every single time I had anything to do with you it sucked. Big time.

stevekemp 13y ago
It took 120+ days for my ebay account to get deleted, but thankfully I could delete my paypal in only a few weeks.
- Crito 13y ago
  The 120+ days thing with ebay is allegedly because they need to make sure any outstanding deals are closed and accounts settled. Of course that is absolute bullshit, it took them 120+ days to close my account and I had not used it for over 4 years at that point. They actually emailed me telling me that they were closing the account due to inactivity. They gave me 3 or 4 months to log on before it would be killed, so I thought to myself "good, saves me the hassle of doing it myself". Fast forward 3-4 months and I get an email telling me my account was compromised. Weird... so I log on, confirm any payment info I had was long since expired, confirmed nothing had happened and that my password was intact... then I scrambled the security question and password just to be safe and told Ebay to delete the account. Cue "this will take 120+ days" bullshit... but whatever. At nearly the end of that 120+ days I get emailed again telling me the account was compromised. I'm convinced this is a scam they run to trick you into logging into your account, thus resetting the the countdown. Ebay and paypal are among my least trusted companies. I have a higher opinion of even Comcast or Halliburton.
  - pdenya 13y ago
    Common tactic as far as I can tell, other companies do the same thing. eg: My Blizzard account that I can't sign in to because it's cancelled has somehow been 'compromised' multiple times.
  - stevekemp 13y ago
    I think my story pretty much echos yours; I'd stopped using paypal for a couple of years, and stopped using Ebay. I cancelled and about three months later I was "compromised". At that point I reset the data to random values, deleted my "ebay@example.com" email alias, and just resigned myself to forgetting about it.

by zoul 13y ago

stevekemp 13y ago

It took 120+ days for my ebay account to get deleted, but thankfully I could delete my paypal in only a few weeks.

Crito 13y ago
The 120+ days thing with ebay is allegedly because they need to make sure any outstanding deals are closed and accounts settled. Of course that is absolute bullshit, it took them 120+ days to close my account and I had not used it for over 4 years at that point. They actually emailed me telling me that they were closing the account due to inactivity. They gave me 3 or 4 months to log on before it would be killed, so I thought to myself "good, saves me the hassle of doing it myself". Fast forward 3-4 months and I get an email telling me my account was compromised. Weird... so I log on, confirm any payment info I had was long since expired, confirmed nothing had happened and that my password was intact... then I scrambled the security question and password just to be safe and told Ebay to delete the account. Cue "this will take 120+ days" bullshit... but whatever. At nearly the end of that 120+ days I get emailed again telling me the account was compromised. I'm convinced this is a scam they run to trick you into logging into your account, thus resetting the the countdown. Ebay and paypal are among my least trusted companies. I have a higher opinion of even Comcast or Halliburton.
- pdenya 13y ago
  Common tactic as far as I can tell, other companies do the same thing. eg: My Blizzard account that I can't sign in to because it's cancelled has somehow been 'compromised' multiple times.
- stevekemp 13y ago
  I think my story pretty much echos yours; I'd stopped using paypal for a couple of years, and stopped using Ebay. I cancelled and about three months later I was "compromised". At that point I reset the data to random values, deleted my "ebay@example.com" email alias, and just resigned myself to forgetting about it.