No-on claimed responsibility for the first hack. Second time round they blamed Amazon, didn't even try to accept any responsibility themselves, it's always someone else's fault.
And no, this isn't helping 'noobs', there are some pretty important aspects of cryptocurrency that you all seem willing to ignore: private keys for your web wallet, who is validating the network and how many people still can't get into their accounts. And how come no-one has spoken up about the fact that in the help section there is just one article? Or how 'mobile mining', whenever that turns up, isn't actually mining at all.
It's no surprise you want it to be big as an investor but you really should think about these important questions rather than all-round defence.
I know I'm a little biased being an early investor myself. But I really think this coin is destined for great things, granted that the team will be able to pull it off.
Private keys if the app wallets are handled by the Electroneum team, just like exchanges handle the keys of coins they receive. They are encouraging people to withdraw to paper wallets for extra security.
The network is validated by the wider mining community. The app is just an easy tool that submits transactions tot the blockchain. You could do it all before using the command line wallet, but the app just makes it so much more user friendly. It's basically doing to cryptocurrencies what Steve Jobs did to computers - prepare them for use by the masses.
Mobile mining was never advertised as real mining. It was always a mobile mining experience and a simulation. The coins are distributed to participants for helping to advertise and market the coin, not for securing blockchain transactions. The fact that the team can pull of the entire mining thing remains to be seen. Let's hope they don't stiff it up...