Have you seen what Karples said today? He refuses to guarantee customer funds are safe. So they must have lost customer money and are figuring out how to keep the business going.
Traders should be prepared for a mother of a haircut. At other exchanges this has been 90-95% so buying GoxBTC at 50-60% of real BTC is risky as. It can't stay that high unless Gox improve this mess in the next 36 hours as promised.