It looks more and more like a criminal act the long and longer we wait for ANY real action from bitcoinica.
If zhoutong is not the owner, or a decision maker in that company, I don't CARE what he says. I only care what the OWNERS say.
But, wait. The ownership of bitcoinica is a secret? That suggests impropriety in the first place.
Owners and technical managers are silent? That suggests something is seriously wrong.
Yes, we're justified in making any kind of assumptions when the company in question still holds funds in the the form of what is now either a theft, or a "forced loan"
How many trades are taking place with our money right now while bitcoinica shores up it's personal losses to make good on everyone account balance?
Seriously, this smacks of some of the recent wall street type debacles. Trading with customer funds was one of my biggest concerns with bitcoinica. The longer they take with making good on the account balances, the more I suspect that this (criminal act) has taken place.
Considering that the attack came through an 'email server', I would assume the attacker(s) have the emails. So all the behind the scene information will be coming to light. (i.e. Expect Mass Leaks Soon) Unless, the 'owners' pay off the attacker(s) to not release said information.
One wonders if they encrypted their emails between principle parties?
I think you are reading too much into it. I a guessing AN email account was compromised that allowed for reset password into the server with the wallet.
A simple page really should have been put up for now on bitcoincia.com There are so many easy ways of doing it, even if it just said, were were hacked, we will respond next week. Leaving nothing on that page for this long is not fair to the users.