Samsung, the South Korean tech giant, has decided to permanently delete all accounts that have been inactive for 24 months as a new move to ensure better data protection.

Starting from July 31, 2025, Samsung will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for 24 months or more. If your account gets deleted, you won’t be able to access the account or any of ...

If an abandoned account is worth over $1,000, then the bank has to hold the funds for 100 years. Despite that, 66 of those accounts are between 100 and 120 years old, with the first outstanding ...

Inactive accounts have a better chance of being compromised, the company stated. "This is because forgotten or unattended accounts often rely on old or re-used passwords that may have been compromised ...

June 4, 2025 at 11:24 a.m. PT Kerry Wan/ZDNET If you have a Samsung account you haven't used in a while, consider checking on it to see if there's anything you need. Otherwise, it might get deleted.

Suppose your account has been closed for three years, then you will have to pay Rs 500 per year, i.e. a total of Rs 1500 as arrears amount, and a penalty of Rs 50 for three years, i.e. a total of ...

The company has announced its Inactive Account Manager. The tool allows users to decide what happens to their data on Google's services -- Gmail, Blogger, Google Drive, Google+, Picasa Web Albums ...

Samsung is set to delete all "inactive" accounts on July 31 - are you affected? (Image: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) The policy will see any "inactive" accounts deleted late next month (July 2025).

It is something that social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years. Twitter backed off an attempt to purge inactive accounts in 2019, years before Musk arrived, due to a similar backlash.