Big thanks for putting energy into this. ❤

I hope you have good tools to effectively revert the changesets.

Lets continue together making the best map Sweden has ever had 😃


"Andreas Vilén" <andreas.vi...@gmail.com> skrev: (7 december 2020 08:36:02 CET)
>Hi,
>
>Big thank you for this!
>
>I believe this situation from earlier this year is connected:
>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-se/2020-May/003876.html
>There were hacked accounts importing one locality per changeset from
>bad data sources. Those accounts were also hacked.
>
>I’m not sure if anyone contacted DWG back then though.
>
>Regards
>Andreas
>
>Skickat från min iPhone
>
>> 6 dec. 2020 kl. 23:27 skrev Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>:
>> 
>> (cross-post with forum)
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> over the last couple of weeks, over 90.000 changesets have been made
>by
>> 45 different accounts, performing an undiscussed, low-quality
>> Lantmäteriet import (many small bits of tracks or minor roads,
>> unconnected to each other and the rest of the network). Several
>members
>> of the Swedish OSM community have made the DWG aware of this issue.
>> 
>> The worst thing about this is that many of the accounts used have
>been
>> hacked - they are accounts of people normally editing elsewhere on
>the
>> planet, with different editors, in different languages, and certainly
>> not importing Lantmäteriet.
>> 
>> Not only is this a slap in the face for all of our hard working
>> volunteers trying to make the best map in Sweden; it is also a crass
>> violation of trust (and very likely also a violation of Swedish law).
>> 
>> We (at DWG) are still investigating who is behind this. This is more
>> than just the usual bad import, this is someone who has enough
>criminal
>> energy to hack into other accounts in an attempt to fly under the
>radar.
>> 
>> We have blocked the accounts involved (a list of accounts we have
>> identified is below). If you know anything that might help us
>determine
>> the identity of this hacker, please let us know at
>d...@osmfoundation.org.
>> 
>> We're planning to revert the import in the coming days.
>> 
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>> 
>> List of accounts identified (remember, many of these will be innocent
>> users that had their account hacked):
>> 
>> 30d4f4e1ccf24
>> Anggele
>> Beckster55
>> Daly Riandi
>> Gary18
>> IsabelenEvelyn
>> Lana Villa
>> Nicolas59380
>> Projekt-rolli
>> RobertKluijver
>> Ryan Seid
>> SLC
>> Sivia1811
>> TTSS
>> ViktorPurtin1
>> Yesbolaga
>> _underscore_
>> ahateam
>> ankon
>> annedukh
>> arraggonn
>> barbara61
>> couch-potato
>> dbmercer
>> dmitmia
>> estrellaoruro
>> faithace
>> flyup2000
>> franz0078
>> hako0215
>> jeppe2011
>> jojoAdventure
>> jona0918
>> kamilpost
>> mapeditorkepno
>> rohweder
>> thageboelling
>> tomas471
>> tomto00001
>> tonypepe
>> ulaB
>> ussifonyll-39
>> uwasescott
>> voodoobaby
>> xcvb
>> xerxes76
>> 
>> -- 
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