123 Cloud Disk began to clean up zombie accounts that have not logged in for a long time. 123 Cloud Disk's policy is to transfer data to cold storage for 1 month if they have not logged in for more than 365 days. If the user still does not log in to the cold storage account 1 month later, the data will be completely deleted by 123 Cloud Disk and cannot be restored. Therefore, users need to keep logging in frequently or transfer their data to other places for storage.China Telecom's Tianyi Cloud Disk has also issued a similar announcement. However, Tianyi Cloud Disk provides users with a very long redundancy period and relatively light punishment measures. Even if they have not logged in for a long time, Tianyi Cloud Disk will not directly delete user data, but will gradually reclaim user space and only retain the basic free storage space allocated by Tianyi Cloud Disk for each user.
Tianyi Cloud Disk zombie account policy is as follows:
Starting from June 30, 2026, if the Tianyi Cloud Disk account has not been logged in for more than 1,096 days (3 years), according to Article 3.2 of the Tianyi Cloud Disk Service Agreement, the user account will be frozen by Tianyi Cloud Disk. If you apply to restore the account within 1 month from the date of freezing, all original services can be restored to normal use, and if more than 1 For accounts that have not successfully applied for restoration within months, users can still try to unfreeze them through the Tianyi Cloud Disk official website, but the welfare space given as gifts and sign-in rewards through the cloud disk platform will be taken back, and only the basic space for free services will be retained.
It is important to remind you that the period of non-login in Tianyi Cloud Disk is not calculated from the announcement date, but from June 30, 2026, as the freezing starting point. If you have not logged in for 3 years, the corresponding account will be frozen from June 30. Users of Tianyi Cloud Disk are recommended to log in to the platform (website or application) before June 30 to keep the account active to avoid having to apply for unfreezing after the account is frozen.
Account cleaning may become a mainstream practice:
For network disk services, the storage space occupied by zombie users will cause long-term resource waste. Therefore, it is understandable that Tianyi Cloud Disk and 123 Cloud Disk clean up or freeze zombie users. Non-network disk services such as Google also have similar cleaning policies. When a Google account has not been logged in for more than 365 days, it may also trigger account freezing or data cleaning. For Google, there are many zombie accounts, and cleaning them can also free up a lot of space and reduce waste.
In the future, more websites or services may implement similar policies. Especially now that the price of storage devices such as mechanical hard drives is very high, it is inevitable for large service providers to find ways to reduce service costs.