(Not up-to-speed? Read here: http://news.deviantart.com/article/138884/)
Seriously, dA, you've fucked up. Restore the subscriber's accounts, or compensate them if you really "can't." If you can't, then I'm disturbed that you don't have any backups of any of your data. What happens if dA gets hacked in some fashion? By the current "logic" you've been displaying, that would be your fault, and you would be screwed.
Be professional about this, and restore accounts that were hacked.
~LR, computer scientist PhD candidate by day, lurker by night
P.S. I was actually thinking about a sub this year, as part of a New Year's resolution to submit more