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January 07, 2015, 08:09:31 AM

What makes the situation suspicious is that apparently they usually only kept 3k or so in the hot wallet according to someone who analyzed the address.  Shortly before the "hack" there was a large deposit made into the account making the large theft possible.  How reliable the blockchain analysis is on which the above conclusions are based I do not know but if that happens to be true its hard to imagine how this could be a just a case of a hacked hot wallet.

I just don't understand how bitstamp, one of the worlds leading bitcoin exchanges, can have their wallets compromised to the tune of 19,000 bitcoins. Does this smell like an inside job or a royal screw up?
Read that yesterday too, here it is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=915160.0

Edit: ^^ this points to more than just a wallet hack, whoever swept those coins into that wallet before clearing it must have had access to more than just the wallet.dat file...