Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I would swear by creative sound cards in the past. I guess I simply had tremendous luck with them and also the performance was stellar weather firing up a EAX game or mixing audio with the included ASIO support. Well now its a been a good few years since the golden age of EAX and DirectSound...