<story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjd</author><text>They emailed me about this back on January 30:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account
   
  Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade.
  
  ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address,
  which includes yours (mjd+trello@example.com).
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The &amp;quot;Good news&amp;quot; part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that  I was able to contact them by email and get instructions about how to avoid having my personal Trello handed over to ExampleCo.&lt;p&gt;It still sucks.&lt;p&gt;The lesson I take from this is:  “Software as a service” is &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; a security risk.  Unless my data is on &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; server, someone else owns it and might sell it to a higher bidder.&lt;p&gt;This is one of those “fool me twice, shame on me” moments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx034</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it standard to open separate accounts for companies? My employers would&amp;#x27;ve never even allowed me to use a personal account or personal email for business content. In the end, they need to be able to claim the content if an employee leaves the company. Mixing personal and company accounts or even accounts of several employers sounds dangerous to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjd</author><text>They emailed me about this back on January 30:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account
   
  Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade.
  
  ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address,
  which includes yours (mjd+trello@example.com).
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The &amp;quot;Good news&amp;quot; part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that  I was able to contact them by email and get instructions about how to avoid having my personal Trello handed over to ExampleCo.&lt;p&gt;It still sucks.&lt;p&gt;The lesson I take from this is:  “Software as a service” is &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; a security risk.  Unless my data is on &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; server, someone else owns it and might sell it to a higher bidder.&lt;p&gt;This is one of those “fool me twice, shame on me” moments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>I got the same and it also said:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Use another Trello account for anything not related to [my previous company]. Grab a new, free Trello account in seconds and move your vacation board (or whatever should be elsewhere!) to that one.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My former company is not even using Trello and everything I have there is personal. I created the Trello with my personal email and only afterwards added the company email to it to access some experimental board we never ended up using.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t comply and instead just removed the company email from the account. I seriously don&amp;#x27;t see why I need to create a new account and move stuff for no reason at all. Why does the organisation email trump my personal one that I actually created the account with? Should I be worried?</text></comment>