Lightroom black and white issues

My Lightroom 5.5 has over night turned all my black and white images into a sepia type tone also when i convert to black and white it is going to a sepia style tone i have also noticed the colour of my histogram has turned from white to the same colour brown! please help. This also seems to be happening when i export an image to silver efex pro 2.

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"Drug"? Say no to bad grammar.
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