I will be open here and say that a few days before this hack happened I was tinkering with the idea of cashing out a hefty sum of my Bitcoins to speculate with and I would have sold at a good price but would be stuck with " fiat" stuck in bitstamp while they recover from said hack.

Glad I didn't follow through on this. Dodged a bullet there.

Small transfers over time are better risk management than sending one large chunk of BTC to cash out.