It is not a FUD, it is a hack. We cannot remove the possibility of self orchestrated hack to showcase their SAFU. Thus, increasing people's trust and believe that their fund is secured through SAFU. Which we can call a marketing strategy plus free advertisement about their SAFU.
Interesting, this also means that they'd have to clear all traces of the 7k btc's movement in or out of their system. Which is very hard to do. But then again with billions at disposal, hard becomes easy.