The "hack" story will never end apparently.
Of course not. It's too easy to blame hackers for theft with how ignorant most authorities are when it comes to proper blockchain analysis. It may sound harsh, but this is the risk that comes with using exchanges like this.
Collateral damage it is called.
Users would never suffer from "hacks", which in most cases are just vulgar stealing performed by someone from the staff, and all the troubles associated with theft would be internal matters.
Correct. People here tend to forget that most of the operators running these smaller exchanges aren't used to deal with so much easy to access value. It results in situations where they get tempted to run off with user funds.
They have no clue about how they can make more money in the long term by running their exchange in a fair manner. All they care about is that they want a lot money as fast as possible. It's retarded.