no, but they can help with getting justice, preventing this from happening again, and tracking the funds.
If there was a like button I would use it here.
This seems to be seriously lacking in the BTC community which is hurting it. The "if you were so stupid as to keep your BTC in MtGox, you deserve to loose your shirt" mentality stacked on top of the silence when it comes to any attempt at justice is read by the general public as a protocol that could never be trusted.
Regulation is not the same as centralization.