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I've now seen a few mutuals talk about pruning old accounts in case they might have been compromised in the LJ password leak. Only accounts where people used the same password for both should be effected.
I had a personal data leak a few years ago from a defunct account being taken over on LJ. People get ... obsessive wanting personal info on convention staff and also ex-board members. Somehow, correct info no one should know kept being passed around. I immediately suspected it was from LJ somehow considering what the info was, but that seemed far fetched. I did a very slow, careful battening of the hatches of my online life. That someone local to me had taken over the account of non-local person to access my locked entries was the only possibility left. I'd carefully eliminated any other possibility. I then made a filtered entry that only defunct accounts could see and posted some juicy bait, and the bait was taken.
I can only speculate how someone (and I know who, btw) managed to get an account still friended to me. Certain scenarios are more likely than others. There is a surprisingly active market in old social media accounts.
tl:dr - Regular housecleaning is good. I left dozens of accounts still friended in case people came back, but people didn't and clearing out the ghosts felt good. I wish to heck I could get rid of some of my ghost followers.
I had a personal data leak a few years ago from a defunct account being taken over on LJ. People get ... obsessive wanting personal info on convention staff and also ex-board members. Somehow, correct info no one should know kept being passed around. I immediately suspected it was from LJ somehow considering what the info was, but that seemed far fetched. I did a very slow, careful battening of the hatches of my online life. That someone local to me had taken over the account of non-local person to access my locked entries was the only possibility left. I'd carefully eliminated any other possibility. I then made a filtered entry that only defunct accounts could see and posted some juicy bait, and the bait was taken.
I can only speculate how someone (and I know who, btw) managed to get an account still friended to me. Certain scenarios are more likely than others. There is a surprisingly active market in old social media accounts.
tl:dr - Regular housecleaning is good. I left dozens of accounts still friended in case people came back, but people didn't and clearing out the ghosts felt good. I wish to heck I could get rid of some of my ghost followers.
