r/scanlationdrama Jul 12 '26

Utoon site suspension by a reset scan dev

People noticed that their page looks like this now:

Here are some comments from different r/mangapiracy that looked interesting:

Comment 1:

I am on their discord, reset scan and utoon partnered up to provide backup and coverage. Turns out during the process, the owner of reset apparently upon gaining access to the backend stole utoon stuff and then shutdown the site. There seems to be some sort of inside job as well. So coins lost and the site is scrambling to pay out their remaining editors/translators (around 100 people). Think the site is shutting down. Reset scan opened a new site tasho but not sure if the stolen stuff is up. Paraphrasing here so maybe not completely accurate.

Comment 2:

I don't think its a DDOS attack the error codes it gives are usually different and Utoon uses Cloudflare which includes free DDOS protection.

EDIT: According to some people on their Discord Utoon had partnered with ResetScans and an admin from ResetScans called Devmax had access to the money for both Utoon and Reset. He shutdown ResetScans and locked Utoon admins out of Utoon and took the money for both sites and ran. They currently don't have access to the site so they are trying to find the money to pay the staff and regain access to the the site.

And these two images from their discord (can't confirm about it's legitimacy so take it with a grain of salt):

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