Too early to tell, but either way the lesson will be "trust no one to hold your coins".
For about two weeks. History shows that people repeatedly leave their funds with wallet services and exchanges no matter how many times those types of services lose user funds. I doubt that is going to change any time soon.
If this is in any way connected to the vulnerability which was publicly discussed last week then Instawallet needs to explain why they didn't take the service offline until that vulnerability was fixed. .