It's not a hack or anything like that. Sometimes LJ's servers get messed up. Usually it'll fix itself in a few hours or if it doesn't try reuploading it tomorrow. If that doesn't work, open a problem report with LJ.
I deleted and reupped and everything seems to be okay for now; hadn't had problems before and since the whole fraud thing I've been really wary of sudden unexplained changes online, especially for something I pay for.
The same thing happened to me! Some weird anime thing showed up in place of my xkcd icon. You need to delete the weird icon before you reupload. Or, at least, I did.
Yup, deleting and reupped it did the trick. I really think I shouldn't be surprised that LJ acts up on occasion, even if it hadn't previously affected me, considering the stories I've heard.
I had this problem a while back. One of my Cordelia icons had been swapped and I suddenly found myself a proud owner of a really ugly picture of some other celeb. I deleted the picture and re-uploaded my own. That seemed to work and I haven't had any trouble again. I've heard about it happening to some other people on my flist though.
It's fixed now, but it just seemed so weird that even when I first reupped it the picture wasn't recognized as being any different; made me a bit paranoid that something bad was up.
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