This got me thinking ... a bunch of interesting events happened recently:

1) first there was a panic sell off which was further fueled on these forums by a group of trolls until measures were taken to get it under control
2) Mt.Gox got crashed what was a middle of the night in Japan where it is located
3) DDoS on Bitcoin website along with Mt.Gox again in the middle of the night and previously other sites
4) mounting suspicious cases of reported "hacked accounts" on Mt.Gox

Any one of these events alone would be non-conclusive and probably coincidence or true incident but taken all together it may appear there is a group that is trying to ruin confidence in Bitcoin. Motives to do so may be numerous ... the simplest one is profit, make people sell and then buy cheap, wait for the price to go up again - profit!

Has any of the "hacking incidents" got confirmed or acknowledged by by Mt.Gox? I'm not aware of such a confirmation ... I would push for an official statement to make sure this is not a FUD campaign by some people ... I do not want to accuse anyone of anything but this is the Internet - it generally isn't a good idea to take a word of some anonymous pseudonym on a forum seriously especially in cases where money is involved.

In one instance the "victim" claimed to have $7,000 withdrawn even that only $1,000 is possible a day, something doesn't smell right here.

So be careful people and do not panic, it's possible that's exactly the goal of such campaign. Every time someone alleges his funds got stolen demand official statement from Mt'Gox whether they can confirm or deny such claims.