>On a side note... New Business plan: > >1. Setup an online Bitcoin wallet service 2. Wait a while till people actually trust/use it 3. "We got hacked"

Something tells me you're not the first to come up with this.

Very high risk for moderate reward, assuming you're based in a country with functioning law enforcement.

Depends on the countries laws. What makes you think anyone attorney is going to prosecute the theft of a "digital currency." At this time in the world most people when informed of bitcoin think it's a toy currency.

Law enforcement aren't necessarily terribly keen on pursuing difficult crimes, especially when the victims are as uncooperative with the investigation as Bitcoin users have historically been

not suggesting this is what happened as it's the first time i even hear about them.

but i've seen people do worse illegal risk/reward decisions before. much worse.

It is impossible to prove either way.