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.
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mangapiracy/comments/1upj4c3/what_happened_to_utoon/
no wonder mangadex updated their api recently.
🙇for the tip themachinestops.