The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

Sanity Check Number Fifteen:

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Have you deactivated any old social media and email accounts you no longer use?

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Social media sites come and go and today’s giants will most likely become tomorrow’s forgotten dinosaurs. This has happened in the past and many of us have old social media accounts that we haven’t used for years - we may even have forgotten their existence. Dormant social media accounts are a gold mine for fraudsters because they can take them over and use them without us ever noticing. A hacked account might: • reveal information about you • be used to fool your friends into disclosing their data

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Produced by The Risk Management Group 2012

Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012