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Reporting old accounts
Dormant accounts may still hold or provide access to sensitive data. Security teams should be notified when accounts are no longer needed.
Why is it important?
Knowing what personal information is online is important. If personal data is held in unused accounts, it becomes harder to track.
Should a data breach occur, personal data may be unnecessarily exposed.
Priority Tier
Behaviours in SebDB are ranked by their impact on risk. Tier 1 behaviours have the biggest impact, Tier 4 behaviours the least.
Risk Mitigated
Personal Exposure
Personal exposure is the extent to how much someones personal information is available online.
Account Compromise
Account compromise happens when unauthorised people access them.
Further reading
https://www.wired.com/story/delete-old-apps-accounts-online/