I suspect they're actively mining this coin with amazon aws resources. Their excuse of being hacked/DDoS is delay tactic.
Most likely case is that amazon stopped them from spinning up more vms, so they're trying to find another provider.
Who would use a botnet to ddos them? why wouldn't they mine this shitcoin and sell on the exchange - 2 birds 1 stone.
Cryptonote botnets been out there already.

And how do we know they sold $40M coins through ICO? Couldn't they have made that up and a great chunck of the 12billion premined coins go back to themselves?
And this Richard guy, he's no dev... he's nowhere near a keyboard in all the pictures/videos.