Clients are being advised to leave their e-mail, Internet banking and social networking usernames and passwords in their wills .This has come about as a growing number of people are dying without ensuring that their executors have all the information relating to their online assets or social networking profiles with the result that bank accounts can be missed or become  inaccessible and online assets can be lost, such as itunes accounts.

Owing to lack of regulation, different websites have wildly different policies regarding dead users and it is vital that clients make provision for these accounts either in their wills or make proper provision for their username and passwords to be available to their executors on death.

The problem does not only arise on death. If a person becomes incapable of managing their affairs, for example as a result of the stroke, if proper provision has not been made to make available username and password information problems will arise.

Client's should discuss these issues with their solicitors when making a Will or Lasting Powers of Attorney.