Well, It seems that the sites I regularly go to, DeviantART and FurAffinity, were both hit by a number of 'hackers', or as the administration calls them; Very good guessing computer users.
Just a few days ago I read up on an article posted on DeviantART regarding that multiple deviants' accounts had been taken control of and deactivated. Countless reports and complaints flooded to administration only days later and an uproar started when a more popular user of the site was reactivated only moments after deactivation.
Multiple discussions/argues went on pushing the most commonly seen sides together for what could be called an endless amount of time. Deviants say that the site lacks the security, while administration suggest that users' computers are poorly protected. To say who's right or who's wrong would be too early an answer seeing as deviants don't know how the site is secured (Mainly due to security itself, why would a company willingly tell what kind of security it has just to have that encryption broken days/weeks/months later?).
Right now the only thing I see is that the people behind this surely have nothing better to do if they result to (for lack of better words) hacking users' accounts and deleting them. Talents like this could be used to make a living. I know that occupations involving computers have pretty high pay in this time and age.
Needless to say, I'm thinking of not even being active on the two sites anymore and any person/people who read this will know first hand whether or not I choose too.
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