Links explaining recent LJ weirdnesses

[hummingwolf]

From elke_tanzer: Why you should change your password if LJ asks you to (link via musesfool).

From Brian Krebs' blog on computer security: "Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes" (link via supergee). Also via comments on supergee's journal, the (brief) story of someone whose account was exploited.

Comments

[missprune.livejournal.com]

That was interesting, and a little scary. Makes me wish I still had a free account, so there would be no tracing my credit card through my paid account. The info didn't seem to mention any worry like that, though.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know what information they could get from LJ's site. I could make some guesses, but since I have never paid for anything myself on LJ (all my paid time has been through gifts), they wouldn't be very good guesses.