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LiveJournal has sold out its own people and our own country and has moved the majority of its team to Moscow, Russia — the country of hackers so beware — If you think your information is safe with LJ you are sadly mistaken because they have now handed everything over and put it in there laps.

Welcome to RuskieJournal people !!!!! I don’t know about you guys but I would view this as a major security issue with 16 million users and no idea how many of them are Americans. If you haven’t changed your password to something you wouldn’t use anyplace else now is the time.

Press Release - http://www.livejournalinc.com/press_releases/20090106.php (0)

January 6, 2009

LiveJournal Inc. announced a restructuring today of their U.S. and Russian operations to more effectively manage costs in light of the global economic downturn.

LiveJournal Inc.’s headquarters, technical operations (and servers,) legal, administration, and customer service teams will remain in the United States. LiveJournal’s global product development and design will now be coordinated out of its Moscow office. The pooling of resources between the U.S. and Russia will allow the company to build a stronger business model, well positioned to guarantee the long-term success of LiveJournal.

As a result of these changes, Matthew Berardo, VP and General Manager of LiveJournal Inc., will be leaving the company along with other valued colleagues. Mr. Berardo played the leading role in consolidating product and design efforts to enable the business to more effectively streamline costs during his tenure. LiveJournal Inc. will now be led jointly by Stephanie Gravelle, currently LiveJournal Inc.’s director of finance and administration, and Sergei Komarov, currently CTO of SUP (LiveJournal Inc.’s holding company).

About LiveJournal

LiveJournal is one of the world’s most respected community publishing platforms. Since its launch in the United States in 1999, LiveJournal has become the online home to a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends and express themselves. LiveJournal encourages community and personal expression by offering users both a user-friendly interface and the ability to deeply customize their journal. The site allows users to set up their own virtual diary and communicate with their friends by posting and receiving comments on each other’s entries. In many countries the site’s most popular functionality is the community aspect which allows users to engage each other on issues of common interest.

LiveJournal has registered more than 16 million accounts since its founding, and currently has a worldwide monthly audience of 20 million of whom 5.7 million are Russian based (Omniture, TNS Gallup). LiveJournal Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.livejournalinc.com (0)