I am not surprised anymore. I am thinking also that the hacking could be an inside job to throw the responsibility over to bittrex for the funds supposedly stolen. The way I see it there are two outcomes:

1. bittrex sends back the money to community123 and takes no responsibility at all in this drama.
2. profiting from the whole situation and make itself a great image it could do the job with the help of what is talked about as proof of ownership and split the 23 million STEEM to their owners. You know what's funny with the second option? If that happens in less than a month, users like @darthknight and @therealwolf would be able to get their funds back faster than through a complete four weeks power down.

Anyways there will be a massive dump of STEEM on the market.