Where can i find more information on what exactly is in the way of upgrading to 2.somthing?

Valid question.

theymos, did they have access to our IP's connected to our user accounts by any chance?

omy. Well, for the hell of it, I've taken the listed IP's in OP, did whois, got the IP ranges and popped them in my blockzones of my firewall.

I cannot recall where I read it, but I think theymos (was it someone else?) mentioned that only a few bitcoin community members were contacted by email regarding volunteers for hosting the forum.  Is it possible to shed some light on the people that were contacted so the community knows who were the only people that had opportunity to volunteer to host the forum?

you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2!

then can you have some of the exchanges to check, who cashed out to that address.
or trace it back to when the coins last come in contact with an exchange.

make a list of involved addresses, and then check them.

you could get an account/address(real world) of the attacker.

my password has 11 characters total: 1 symbol, 8 letters, and 2 numbers. what are the chances it gets broken into after it's hashed?

DO NOT USE WEBSITES TO GENERATE YOUR PASSWORDS

There is a good chance that your new and shiny password is stored for later attacks!

Create 4 random passwords which contains no special characters and are 10 characters long:



Create 4 random passwords which DO contains special characters and are 12 characters long:

That address was funded with exactly 10BTC with this transaction on 9-3.
We see that wallet that funded the 10BTC sent a remainder back to itself at address 1GzKzdZ7KxXboxz6ehJFqJ9vv6EFdvuBYm. Those remainder coins get sent around for a while with wallet-aggregating payments, and then they are sent to a new address with all the other little coins on 9-4 to 1FLipaPNU3FHWJz6NFetzTN6xBsjvRXKhS. Current balance? 4500BTC. That kinda looks like an exchange savings account too, so they could have gone into an exchange.

I followed a few of the coins into the sending wallet all the way back to them being mined and sent from a pool account (if the haxor was the one who mined them, the pool address owner could reveal the account), and googled some of the addresses, and they haven't been posted prominently as 'donation' addresses or such. A more extensive dump than my manual exploring could get a picture of all the addresses in the wallet and what else they've been doing, and if any of the addresses have leaked out on the internet to be matched to an identity, or have coins that have gone through an exchange.