It's under maintance as of this moment and it's almost a week. Well, you know guys what that means. It means bye bye to your precious btc and altcoins there if you stored it there because the exchanges are surely finalizing their magical exit.
i highly doubt this was a exit scam. cryptopia went straight to the police; that was publicized rather quickly. and as crappy as cryptopia was, it definitely had company equity worth more than the few million bucks the hacker got away with. an exit scam just seems illogical.
it might have been an inside job though (one or more employees trying to make it look like a hack). that's the perpetual fear with exchanges---there's a whole company of staff and directors who have much easier access to customer funds than outside hackers do.
the hacked amount appears low enough that a bailout by an angel investor is still possible.
Hopefully it will be an inside job, this has the highest chances of catching the thief. They can check logs, cameras, interrogate people, someone might know or might have seen something, someone might try something suspicious as flying to another country or buy a new house. Catching a hacker from the outside will be much harder... the best we could hope is that the funds are frozen the moment they enter another exchange and transferred back to Cryptopia/police.
And.... let's keep the conversation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1669443.msg49345067#msg49345067
This thread's subject is about the effect of BTC's price and after so many days I'd consider it finite.