Welcome back!

Cheers! Glad to hear everything is restored!

Welcome back!

I missed the whole thing but I'm glad you're back =P

You missed some good memeage. The hacker was a dong, But... he did make a good meme

Glad ya got stuff situated losty.

Welcome back Sheepy!

Welcome back

Oh so that's what that was about.

I still can't believe that loser did what they did.

Don't they have ANYTHING better to do?

Where I'm not condoning what they did, I find it reasonable to do considering they may not have gotten what they paid for.
I'm clearly speaking out of my ass here, basing this opinion on little to no facts as I clearly don't know who the individual was nor whether they actually commissioned her in the first place.
But from what I gathered, this is over a lost agreement on art, and I again find it quite reasonable to fuck with an artist if they didn't deliver on what they were paid to deliver.
I've been scammed before a couple times and I know just how much it sucks to have someone just run off with your hard earned money.

Look, I’ve been scammed out a few pieces as well, but it is not anywhere near reasonable (especially if you’re just blindly throwing “reasons” out) to go in and mess with someone’s personal accounts. You can certainly hold people accountable and let others know of your experience, but otherwise there’s no circumstance where that is ok.

Artists beware is a thing, so I agree there, however sometimes you need to smack some sense into people by going a little deeper.
There's many artists that shall go unnamed who scam people, get put on blast and then create a secondary accounts and rinse and repeat.

Again, I'm not siding with the ass hat that did all of this but I do genuinely understand their frustration if what they claimed was in fact true.

Two wrongs don't make a right. It would be wise to remember that.

I'm more "An eye for an eye" kinda guy

Ghandi said it best though:

An Eye for an Eye would make the whole world blind.

I don't believe in that saying.

He also said "Our words are backed by nuclear weapons."

I thought he was murdered before India developed atomic weapons.

https://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-su.....ion-1653818245

Just to mention... Assuming your given scenario and without condoning any artists who scam their clients or condoning people who want to "fight back" with what seems to have happened here nor even condoning the law I'm about to cite... There is potentially real legal consequences here arising from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, involving a felony that could lead to ten years of prison time.

Don't break the law just to fuck with an artist. The law doesn't care how petty your reasons are and a few hundred bucks is a terrible reason to lose ten years of your life and the pain of having a felony conviction following you for your life.

Your life isn't worth the cost of a grudge even over hard earned money. It sucks, yes. But you can always get more money. You can't get ten years of your life back. You are worth so much more than that.

Go ahead and think it stupid for someone to go to prison for hacking an account on a furry artwork website. But the Federal government has successfully convicted people on much dumber things that people have done, ruining their lives in the process. Don't be one of those people. The Federal government doesn't care how silly it sounds, only the letter of the law.

You lost me at first mention of laws.
And your last couple lines are pretty much exactly how I feel on the subject matter.

I appreciate your view on the subject though!

Edit: To add something small here,
To hijack someones account for slander and laughs is one thing but to hunt for "personal information" and abuse it is an entirely different subject matter to which I think you're probably referring to. I indeed doubt that the federal government would give two shits about this situation though.

I can sum it up easy.

10 years prison time because you got upset an artist didn't draw you a horse dick you paid for, is one hell of a reason.

"you" being the generalized second person "you", to be clear.

Edit: Sorry friend, but it possibly just requires "damages" to be claimed. You don't wanna risk it.

Edit Edit: also, gaining access to the account probably gave the artist's email address to the person, and that would definitely qualify for "personal information", not to mention date of birth or any other information that might be in the artist's account information.

Yes, they probably did get a bunch of information on the artist but again I doubt it would matter unless they did something with it.
I'm aware these are two different views here and I also doubt either of us will budge on it so lets just rejoice in knowing lost-paw gets to post more art on here again!

Unfortunately it came at a time when efforts are being made to get paying commissioners their art. A queue was opened up almost two weeks ago to establish who is owed what, and already three commissions have been produced for people on that queue. There is nothing reasonable about this chain of events as alternative options were available.

Fair enough. As aforementioned I don't know the whole story so I can't play devils advocate forever :'D
I'm just glad she got her account back for said art to come back.

Glad you got your stuff back!
I hope they bring back your gallery successfully.

Welcome back at long last sweets! Was surprised to see your username in my feed, aaaaaa!! So glad to have you back where you belong XD! <3

Holy shit, this is a thing!

I'm glad your account is back in your control. Dragoneer should likely be able to restore your gallery from a previous backup!

But you might want to ask him what other steps you might need to take to help protect yourself from the hacker having gained access to your account, such as now knowing what email address is associated with it and so forth.

the Lost-paw is FOUND!

Glad to hear your doing better!

Yay! Welcome back.

Glad to hear back from you, and that you have control again

Good to see you standing strong again!

Welcome back! ^_^

Glad your back lost-paw! Hope you get your gallery back.

That tea got cold quickly, how anticlimactic.

Make sure that the password is nice, long, and random. I recommend a password manager. I use dashlane and I like it.