Can any dev answer why mp would only have an issue with vrc and the attackers did not take btc or higher valued coins?  If what mp said was true and only vrc was hit, but had nothing to do with vrc?

Just looking for an answer, if there is a good explanation, then great! would instill confidence!

Update from MintPal
13/07/2014 4:19 PM Announcements
Please read the entirety of this post.

A few hours ago we were unfortunately the subject of a successful attack against the exchange. Our investigations have shown that whilst our security was breached, VeriCoin was the target. We would like to stress that VeriCoin and the VeriCoin network has not been in any way compromised. We have worked to secure the exchange and the withdraw process from any further attack.

As it stands at the moment the following applies:

1) We lost a considerable amount of VeriCoin in the attack, however we have been working with the VRC developers and all major exchanges to hard fork the coin at a position before the attack. This will allow us to retrieve the stolen coins and facilitate all withdrawals. We are also working with various exchanges to accommodate any losses they may encouter as a result of the required fork.

2) We are currently processing withdrawals for all other coins.

As I'm sure you will appreciate, our support channels will most likely be very busy over the coming hours/days so please bear with us.

We would like to personally extend our thanks to the VeriCoin developers and the other exchanges who have pulled out all of the stops to ensure that your VRC funds are safe.

Like the attacker would have thought:

I go for the 3 biggest coin

It is your thoughts or it is proven info?

The hacker must not of wanted my coins ON mintpal cuz there still there, i feel left out

Leave em there till the dust settles, and a fork is created. any coin movement from after the attack untíl the client update will be erased.

Agreed! This is not a fault in Vericoin yet the Devs moved quickly to minimize the damage to MintPal and folks who had their coin there. This shows their commitment to VRC and I, for one, applaud that!

so what are we supposed to do? update the wallet? backup the wallet?

inside job?