How to delete your Yahoo! email account, IM, or profile
A person's privacy is very important and as users we often leave pieces of information about ourselves stored in databases across the internet. This simple process will walk you through how to terminate your account with Yahoo!. It will permanently delete your account data and settings for your Yahoo! ID, Mail address, and Profile names. It will also delete your account data and settings across Yahoo! including the contents of your HotJobs, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Address Book, Yahoo! GeoCities, Yahoo! Briefcase, and My Yahoo!
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Instructions
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Make sure you have your user name and password handy.
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Go to the following URL - http://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
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Enter your user name and password
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You will be asked again to enter your password. Enter your password and click "Terminate this Account"
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Tips & Warnings
Your account will be deactivated and then deleted from Yahoo's user registration database in approximately 90 days.
Personal information for users subscribed to Yahoo! Finance Premium Services will be kept by Yahoo! for at least 3 years after the subscription end date.
Yahoo! may allow other users to sign up for and use your ID once it's deleted.
If you have information you don't want to loose make sure you back up all you vital information before completing these steps.
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Comments
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I have terminated my Yahoo account. There's a clause in the form that says that after 90 days my user ID can be made available to others. Does that mean that if someone then snaps up my old user name they could start impersonating me? Would he see everyone on my contact list? Would my old contacts see him and think I was back on-line?
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bapchuoi
May 11, 2008
Hi, I accidental delete my yahoo account. Is anyone out there know how to claim back the account. I made a mistake and I would like it back. Please help. Thank you.
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bapchuoi
May 11, 2008
Is anybody out there know how to claim back yahoo email account? It is a mistake and I would like to undo the process. Please help!
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jonnynez
Oct 30, 2006
I had no idea that my info was still in a Database, thanks for the article.
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Gregory
Oct 27, 2006
Extremely useful information. With over 400 million registered users, I'm sure this how-to will be helpful for someone looking to remove their Yahoo! data. By the way, I like your ham-atar.
