Just an update of sorts.
It appears a significant amount of accounts have been compromised in the past few weeks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0) and that there must be some form of exploit going around for the bitcointalk.org forums

This may mean that the dev account being compromised is factual, although its impossible to tell for certain.

Having said that, there's still been no email replies or news or information or any attempt at telling anyone what is going on from what I've seen.