# Ghost Accounts: The Digital Afterlife Lurking in Your Network
In this electrifying episode, cyber sleuth Finn Hack explores the dangerous world of ghost accounts - the forgotten digital identities that hackers exploit for devastating breaches. Discover how a Fortune 500 company fell victim to ransomware through an abandoned admin account, why a nonprofit's forgotten volunteer logins became targets for donation theft, and how a tech startup's failure to deprovision former employees led to massive data exfiltration. Learn essential cybersecurity practices to prevent these digital specters from haunting your systems, including proactive deprovisioning strategies and regular account audits. Whether you manage enterprise networks or personal accounts, this eye-opening exploration reveals why digital ghosts might be your biggest security vulnerability in 2025.
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