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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Andy from OSM's Data Working Group here. We've received reports
of some strange editing activity in Sweden such as "nudging a
hamlet by 2m" or "deleting one created-by tag". The accounts
involved all seem to have been unused for some time - as an
example one might have been adding things in Russia 5 years ago,
then stopped, and suddenly starts making small edits in Sweden
within the last week or so. The edits themselves don't appear to
be particularly problematic - they almost seem to be "just seeing
if they can make an edit".<br>
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<p>We've had confirmation from some of the accounts that these
recent edits weren't made by them, so what we suspect has happened
is that people have used the same password for multiple sites on
the internet, and if one gets compromised, people can use
credentials obtained from there elsewhere. <br>
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<p>You can see the changeset discussion comments that I have left
at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=61942&commented">http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=61942&commented</a>
- there are lots of them left at <span class="time">2020-02-10.
Also, some block messages, the "ends in about 1 month" ones at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/blocks_by?page=9">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/blocks_by?page=9</a>
and on the following pages.</span></p>
<p><span class="time">If anyone spots anything odd or has got any
other questions you can mail OSM's Data Working Group at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:data@osmfoundation.org">data@osmfoundation.org</a> .</span></p>
<p><span class="time">Best Regards,</span></p>
<p><span class="time">Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working
Group.</span></p>
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