it seems likely that BTC sent in AFTER the hack announcement may be set aside in an eventual settlement
What about the people who don't go here. Shouldn't the site have a warning or an e-mail blast? This is kinda like lets post on bitcointalk and hope everyone knows to go read there before sending or god forbid an automated system since they advertized having api for that very reason.
You are 100% correct, there is still nothing on the website to indicate that it is down for anything other than some trivial maintenance. Relying on your customers to read this thread is insane.