What happened today? (18.October.2015) Firefox has removed all add-ons "or" bring to install

Hi all
So, today, my father called me to help you, because he could not start Firefox.
After awhile, he showed that Firefox has crashed and the previous session could not be retrieved.
So we restarted Firefox and discovered, that all modules have been removed, then Firefox seems to work normally.
I thought that it's a misfortuned event and I left, because Firefox seems to work normally after that.

Later that night, I had a similar thing happens to me, I start Firefox, and it opens with the default view (I use modules that modify that) with 11 tabs, one for the page by default, and on the other, asking me if I want to install an add-on said or delete it. (all 10 modules were those that I installed the way back and there is no additional/unknown modules)

So I wanted to ask if someone could tell me what could have happened. I could not find official news that something has gone wrong. Was it a coincidence that we both had a similar, if not the same strange problem?
I'm using Firefox 40.0.3 and my dad uses Firefox 41.0.2 (current version), we both use different computers and we both use different routers.

Thank you in advance!

BIG EDIT:
So apparently there was a big broad cyber attack on the 18th. October 2015, my father the other laptop (not the PC I mentioned) may not even load Windows more.
I guess that this is not a specific question of Firefox more, so this thread can be closed.

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