Oh yeah they did it this time, for those of you that don't know FA was attacked by a hacker this week, lots of data was stolen, in fact the entire code was stolen through an exploit in a plugin, a major breach in security that allowed a hacker to obtain a copy of the entire code FA runs on, this also included users emails and passwords.

As of today May 20th 2016 FA was forced into a read only mode as staff discovered that hackers were hacking into peoples accounts gasp you don't say, I advise everyone that uses or had used FA to change their passwords if they use the same passwords for any other accounts they have.

The attack occurred on the 17th of May, it consisted of the hacker/s deleting everything, because of such the staff were forced to resort to using a back up, that was a week old, this back up was created on May 11th, people still lost plenty of watches, and submission because of this, but by the 18th the site was brought back online, the staff was confident that the hacker/s couldn't access the passwords or emails of the user base because it was supposedly hashed and salted they also didn't believe that user account data has been compromised, however just two day later it was learned that the hacker/s were logging into peoples accounts forcing the staff to go into read only mode.

My thought's on this whole debacle is purely one of "I told you so" I had complained in the past many times that such was just a time bomb waiting to happen, with the rise of Furry Network and with the availability of other art sites like Weasyl, Inkbunny and etc, I think FA is likely in it's death throes, but who knows, maybe people will continue to cling to the one art site they know so well despite all the crap that comes with it.

But poor leadership and a poor oversight have weakened FA over the years, with several users becoming rather fed up with FA's crap and becoming more and more vocal, it still seems to be in the overall minority, but with the fact that none of it is anything new I am fairly confident that such will lead to more users becoming fed up and becoming vocal about it.

Fact is I expected with such a breach in security for the FA staff to notify the user base that the potential of users accounts being compromised was a possibility and forcing everyone to change their passwords, more so after it was learned that a usb containing FA's code was being passed around at a furry convention, all this was learned about before the May 17th attack, but per usual FA's staff sat on their ass until the attack happened.

Plain and simple I am so beyond sick of this kinda piss poor crap, one issue after another, if it's not some kinda drama affecting the site it's poor oversight causing issues, with backups happening I assume weekly for an art site as large as FA it's unacceptable, and to really put the cherry on top, the staff also claims that they can't keep daily backups due to storage issues, I thought the whole point of FA being sold to IMVU was so that this kinda thing wouldn't be an issue anymore, but clearly once again money has become an issue.

I am seriously so close to just saying fuck it, to just resorting to doing anything and everything to get myself banned so I have no excuse to return to FA again and never have to deal with the site's shit.

Anyway rant over, feel free to comment with your thoughts I would enjoy a discussion.