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.

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 ...

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).

The rules allow for an inactive account to be frozen after two years, but the unclaimed balance is not handed over to the Bank of Canada until 10 years have passed.

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.