Few weeks ago I accidentally sent 20btc worth of razorcoin to a riecoin address.. and everyone made fun of me when I requested the developer some how code something for the next update that would return my coins. I was emotional and was not thinking clearly or rationally and it was a stupid request to even consider asking. I know it sucks but sometimes you just gotta take the loss. At one point darkcoin got attacked pretty hard when a hacker stole a bunch of coins and used it to crash the price of darkcoin. In the real world if something goes wrong, you can't just jump in a time machine and make it right.
But but but... this is the real world.. and they DID make it right.
Would you rather the theif had 8 milion Vericoins or that their heist was worthless??
I would rather the thief keep the 8 million coins, he won them as far as I am concerned. He exposed that mintpal can't be trusted anymore and that is going to pave the way for innovation (better exchanges) which is priceless for the crypto community as a whole. Things like this need to happen so important lessons can be learned.