I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday

the most interesting part I think is that he was actually able to withdraw 643.27 bitcoins (much more than usual daily limit) when they were for around $1.55 each which means withdrawal limit for BTC was calculated at current market prices.

If this is all true, then hacker is probably banging his head against the wall now because he was likely able to steal millions without any hope being ever caught. or did he?

MtGox claims he got away with only $1,000 worth of bitcoins however if he took them out of the exchange right after the crash when their market value was around $0.01... oh well, there is something very fishy going on here. I suspect MtGox doesn't have enough bitcoins to back their accounts now. If you see in upcoming days people complaining about MtGox not willing to physically transfer bitcoins back to their traders, it will be more than obvious.

If I was on a public IP, it'd be very hard for me to not sprint with that much coinage.

What of the repeated security warnings and downplaying by MtGox mentioned by the author of this post?

At some point it becomes willful ignorance, which usually leads to bad outcomes.

The sale was not legit, it should not stand. The rest of the rollback is fuzzier, but on this gentlemans coins, a seizure should occur.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/corpsec/blogs/bus-law-an...

"It was definitely all our bitcoins that mtgox had in one account! I remember a few days before, people saying that some big bitcoin movements on bitcoin monitor were from mtgox, and the quantity being moved was around 400 000 to 500 000 bitcoins. No single user lost that quantity, it was our coins, from all of us!"