Black Arrow Software recently had some of their bitcoin stash stolen and is now blaming it on bitcoin.
I would tend to fall on the presumption of believing these coins were not stolen by an outside hacker, as a more typical scenario in these cases is an inside job and than a manufactured story of guilt which is an old grifter ruse.
At this stage in the game their should be 2 rules with mining hardware.
1) Only use multi-sig escrow with a trusted arbitrator
or
2) Do not preorder equipment and pay with a credit card or use option 1 if its an untrusted company
Thats a good point. I am also suspicious of people that are attempting to sue them in Hong Kong because they will eventually mention the expenses and other people are eager to donate. Scammers on the internet have many angles of screwing you and this could be one of them. The good part is, that the miner i ordered is absolutely worthless now so i have nothing to lose by spreading the word.