# Counter C00053: Delete old accounts / Remove unused social media accounts

* **Summary**: remove or remove access to (e.g. stop the ability to update) old social media accounts, to reduce the pool of accounts available for takeover, botnets etc. 

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M012 - cleaning

* **Resources needed:** 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA04


| Actor types | Sectors |
| ----------- | ------- |
| [A012 account owner](../generated_pages/actortypes/A012.md) | S006 |
| [A028 platform administrator](../generated_pages/actortypes/A028.md) | S008 |
| [A031 social media platform adminstrator](../generated_pages/actortypes/A031.md) | S007 |



| Counters these Tactics |
| ---------------------- |



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0011 Compromise legitimate account](../generated_pages/techniques/T0011.md) |
| [T0030 Backstop personas](../generated_pages/techniques/T0030.md) |



| Seen in incidents |
| ----------------- |


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