Action needed: We’re closing your email account
Loosing email account is only 5% of the issue.
How many accounts have your email address as account name? Yes you can still login to that account but you won't receive any communication. You can't update your email address for these, you have to create a new account with a new email address.
At this point you will loose access to your PayPal balance, your air miles, rewards accumulated, even your money! Imagine trying to converse with everyone to move assets held against your VM email address? Imagine the elderly who may not be IT literate trying to do this! VM - imagine worst case this winter if the elderly cannot access their assets?
I have well over 100 accounts with my email address as account name, it will take weeks to try to contact all of these!
Even if you can continue to use accounts that use your email address as account name, when you have to reset your password, which can be mandated following a cyber attack, you won't get the rest link by email!