Google, which hosts billions of user accounts, said on Tuesday that it plans to delete accounts that have remained inactive for two years.

Beginning Friday, Google is moving ahead with its plan to delete accounts that have been inactive for at least two years.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to prevent security threats including hacks.

The decision to delete the old accounts comes as Google said it has determined that abandoned accounts were 10 times more likely to not have two-factor authentication set up than active accounts.

In recent technology news, Google is moving forward with deleting accounts, including Gmail, that have not been used in two years.