Random people showing up in Track Changes??

Anonymous
2023-02-05T00:30:48+00:00

I am doing revisions on a novel and random people are now showing up in the track changes. I have not shared this document with anyone, but it is stored in my OneDrive. How did these people's names get in my document? They are coming up as reviewers and their names are attached to changes I've made.

This is incredibly concerning and a HUGE privacy violation. Has anyone else seen this??

For what it is worth, I've googled these people and I have NO connection to them at all. But one thing I did notice is that LinkedIn profiles appear for all of them near the top of the Google results. One of them is the CMO of Whole Foods?? I, personally, do not have a LinkedIn profile nor have I ever.

Microsoft Word for Mac v16.69.1

macOS 13.2

EDIT: I updated the screenshot to remove content of document.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T15:48:25+00:00

    Thank you! :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T20:47:14+00:00

    I had the same happen to me - mystery user on my onedrive document supposedly made changes on 2/4/2023. The changes were actually made by me but has this unknown user tagged for them. Very Strange.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T20:48:08+00:00

    Double checking - all 6 of the reviewers magically appeared, not just the 3 with the red arrows, correct?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T20:48:51+00:00

    Did it say unknown or have some random person's name there?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T20:56:41+00:00

    Of the 6 reviewers in my screenshot, 3 of them appeared randomly on Feb 2nd. The other three are me (twice) and my editor (Lauren) who made a comment in the document back in May 2022. To clarify, this file was not shared out through OneDrive. Her comments were from me copying them into this document back in May of 2022.

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