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AndrewTerry
·hace 3 años·discuss
this is interesting. I had an alert from an ID monitoring service I subscribe to today advising of a “mid severity breach” for an undisclosed service. The details leaked were my name, email address, and town of residence. The notification says the service is undisclosed as the provider is still working with law enforcement. I wonder if this it.
AndrewTerry
·hace 3 años·discuss
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AndrewTerry
·hace 4 años·discuss
It was a while ago (2009) so I can't remember the exact process, but I seem to recall that even back then it was quite convoluted, and differentiated between deactivate and delete.

That said, I certainly haven't touched it since 2009 to check if it really was deleted.
AndrewTerry
·hace 4 años·discuss
You may think you've deleted your FB account, but its probably still there...

I "deleted" my FB after they acquired FriendFeed (still the best social network I've ever come across) back in 2009.

I was puzzled, then, to receive an email in November last year asking if I had tried to log in. "Impossible", I thought, "that account was deleted!". So, I visited Facebook, and because my old username/password were still in my password manager, I was able to log in! Imagine my shock to find my old profile, still there with it's old profile pic, my old connections, etc.

When will "delete my account" actually mean my account is deleted?

(The final kick in the nuts to this story is that within 2 minutes of logging in, I get a chirpy, "Welcome back to Facebook!" email. Fuckers.)