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.
Yeah, if this gets to be too big a problem, we'll see about making arrangements to push the contest back a week. It doesn't do anyone any favors by not being able to get work.
All projects of this type have issues like this every couple of years.
There are the minor blips along the way that result in a few hours downtime, then there are the catastrophic failures that screw things up for days at a time. Please be calm, and observe the "Fasten Seatbelt" signs. This will be resolved and everything will be status quo again. No need to panic or jump ship (projects).
I was on their forum and there was some noise about the server that handles the cancer work units being down. Nothing official, but that sounds like the case.