I was just thinking about this.  I remember moving 4 Bitcoin over to trade on Cryptsy.  After the bubble popped and a lot of the speculative coins lost a lot of value I sort of stopped checking in on it. 

I really wish there was some way to recover these coins, it's a shame what happened with "Big Vern".  The 30 Litecoins I had on that exchange alone would be worth $9k by now.  I also happen to know Worldcoin, Fastcoin, Goldcoin, and several others that I had significant holdings in have made a pretty big comeback with all the recent coin mania.  The latest I saw is that some law firm is now going after Coinbase to recover funds for those that lost significantly in the Cryptsy debacle.  Coinbase has always been a good, secure, reliable service and that doesn't seem like something I want to be a part of.  I never really liked the "robbing Peter to pay Paul" idea.

I also had some holdings over in BTC-E when they got seized by the feds for a similar reason (robbing Peter to pay Paul, due to stolen Mt. Gox coins being exchanged on BTC-E) - though they have always been good to me and I believe they will ultimately pay back their loyal customers - now as Wex.  I was clearly too trusting of exchanges when I first got into this stuff, lots of hard lessons have been learned over these last few years.