Right, and if I'm not mistaken, the admin said that when the time comes, they'll also try to see about posting the backend code so that whoever is interested in creating a successor site like this can use as the backend, especially in regards to connecting to said torrents that are posted and processing them for the DDL route which I'm guessing many of us who don't do torrent will still be able to do after this site's operation shuts down.

Good to know, appreciate that!

So it looks like the account only had three torrents total submitted to Nyaa.si:
https://cache.animetosho.org/nyaasi/view/2077928
https://cache.animetosho.org/nyaasi/view/2077930
https://cache.animetosho.org/nyaasi/view/2077931

So the user never actually posted any legit torrent.
Torrents currently on the user's listing are before May 2017, so would've been imported from NyaaTorrents.

I did find five comments posted (again, Nyaa.si data only):

https://nyaa.si/view/960457#com-3
https://nyaa.si/view/971771#com-62
https://nyaa.si/view/1023531#com-16
https://nyaa.si/view/1023531#com-22
https://nyaa.si/view/1070399#com-14

So it doesn't look like the account was ever used much at Nyaa.si. I imagine the 'trusted' status and the fact old torrents got assigned to the account was coordinated via discussions elsewhere.
I'm guessing the user didn't care much for their account, so maybe it got compromised via password reuse or similar.

But it certainly does give a lot of credit to the hacked account theory.

It was "HyakuPercent" https://www.goodjobmedia.com/2018/09/l...kupercent/

This account had since been banned: https://nyaa.si/user/HyakuPercent

I see, thanks for the info.
Does anyone know which user this was?

Yes, one user who had a trusted account died in 2018 and had suddenly started  to uploaded fake releases, a few weeks ago. Either some one who knew them sold the account, the password was used elsewhere or their info got leaked.

It's a really trivial matter. The viruses they spread require at least an older version of Windows to infect them, and Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 can prevent them.

Even try to install, it won't happen unless they remove the windef

Thanks for the heads up.
(fortunately the filters I previously added automatically excluded their uploads)