Yes, Ukyo said something very similar in one of his earlier IRC chats - it was in the sense that on his opinion what happened will lead to higher BTC price. There is a possibility for those to be connected and the problem is technical. Some are trying to mutate Bitcoin transactions in order to try to convince the sender the transaction didn't happened while it actually did. Then the sender could by mistake send it for a second time resulting in losing part of his Bitcoins and credit it to other users. "...the changes required for addressing this issue will be positive over the long term for the whole community." https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140210.html