I had the same thing on one of the boards that I administer. Fortunately I was awake at the time and emailed tech support. The problem though was that the users table got locked and when we repaired it it "deleted" 10 users (randomly). Fortunately I got them all back.
JT I am alive as well if you are worried - gosh soon you will be like our mom
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