Executors fear the boom in password-protected internet services will leave grieving relatives unable to access accounts of the deceased.
Bank accounts, ISAs and online music collections all require either email addresses, passwords or personal ID numbers.
The Dying in a Digital Age study, commissioned by Remember A Charity, disclosed that four in five people own digital assets, but only nine per cent have considered how they will pass these on when they die.
‘Digital legacies’ lost as people omit passwords from wills – Telegraph