Logging in the other day, I was greeted with the lovely "Login failed. Your username or password may be incorrect or inactive at this time..." So I tried again, carefully. And again. OMG! Someone hacked my account! So I immediately went to the site to reset my password. That looked like it didn't work, at first, then I got the confirmation email, so I tried again with the new password. Same response. Fifteen minutes later, I log in just fine.
So, yeah, all that worry for nothing. It was just the account server hiccuping or whatever. Is there a good reason for the lies? Just tell us it's not working right now, fer cryin' out loud.