Privacy Fix: Search and Destroy Old Email Accounts

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Yahoo News - 6/4/2-10 - Thomas Germain - Consumer Reports - A lot of people have more than one email address, from old college accounts to long-forgotten AOL handles. Spare email accounts can be useful for things like separating work from your personal life or filtering out spam. But if you have old email addresses that you aren’t monitoring, you may be putting your privacy and security at risk. “Old email accounts are especially valuable for the cyber criminal because we don't go back and check them, which makes it more likely that a compromise will go unnoticed,” says Adrien Gendre, chief solution architect of Vade Secure, an email security firm. “It’s a vulnerability that a lot of people don’t realize they have.” Read more @ https://news.yahoo.com/privacy-fix-sear ... 43860.html