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Oct 14, 2026 · Information Security

Claude Code Ban Cleanup: 5 Hidden Data Locations & the cc-clean Tool

After a Claude Code account ban, the author details five local locations where telemetry, credentials, and API keys persist on macOS, demonstrates manual cleanup steps with concrete file paths and commands, and releases an open-source Python tool (cc-clean) to audit and safely remove residual data without losing project settings.