I've had some tech friends walk me through what's going on. I still don't understand it. Important shit first, explanation behind the break:
FURAFFINITY.NET IS COMPROMISED, DO NOT LOG INTO OR NAVIGATE TO FURAFFINITY OR THE "FURAFFINITY STORE".
ALSO, FURAFFINITY'S TWITTER IS COMPROMISED AND DISABLED REPLIES, DELETED POSTS DOCUMENTING THE HACK.
Okay, details below.
Speculation is wild and on the Furaffinity Discord, chatter is being clamped down as the present administration of Furaffinity doesn't understand the concept of Press Releases (using trusted media partners to disseminate information as an official channel of communication between the Administration and the Public). This has lead the Furaffinity Discord to have many chilling attempts to slow or stop conversation about this topic be rationalized under the "stopping misinformation" excuse. If they had real fucking updates on developments, it'd be a lot easier to help a community stop the spread of misinformation.
Reminder: The Furaffinity.net Website is currently hijacked and may redirect you to unwanted locations that could scoop information. The Furaffinity Twitter account and the late Dragoneer's Bluesky account were both compromised, and were used to shitpost at the community's collective expense. At time of writing, there is no other news.
Suffice to say, the following is speculation:
Just shooting off a short update because I've seen shit said, and just woke up.
Furaffinity is now back in the hands of its actual owners, which means the total crisis was about 36 hours in length (pretty short episode). Work is being done at the moment to re-secure the website through one of the host/vendors.
As for our hacker friend, it seems like they might have been fucking Canadian and might have actually lost 300k Canadian Actual Dollars. Now I'm not the most well off currently-residing-in-Canada person who ever lived, but I can attest that 300k CAD would be an awfully large amount of plastic monopoly money to throw into the fire.
There's other details still forming about the nature of the hack and how pwned this kid is that I've not caught up on, but it does amuse me greatly to see this kind of turn-around.