SAN FRANCISCO - Google will begin deleting accounts this week that haven’t been logged in to for at least two years, citing security concerns. The company announced earlier this year that if a Google ...

Hackers are coming for your Gmail password. Fact. But what if they already have it? Here’s what you need to do to find out.

Google is conducting a massive cull of inactive accounts on December 1st, giving users three days to act if they want to prevent their historical data from being deleted forever. The purge, which ...

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Old, unused Google accounts and all the messages and photos connected with them could be deleted starting Dec. 1. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to start deleting accounts that have ...

Google account holders, beware: If you have an old Google account, you have just a few more hours to use it or lose it. Beginning Dec. 1, Google will delete inactive accounts and all their contents, ...

Seven months after Google warned people it would be mass-deleting inactive accounts, the company will begin pulling the trigger this Friday, December 1. That’s going to mean Gmail, Google Chat, Google ...

How to secure your Google account: complete guide following massive data breach A major cybersecurity event has exposed over 16 billion login credentials, according to researchers at Cybernews. The ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. For a lot of us, Google plays an outsize role in digital life. Through its various apps and services, Google handles our online ...

Back in May, Google said that towards the end of this year it would start shutting down inactive accounts. If you filed that away as a "sometime" item on your to-do list, it's time to take action: the ...