People are lumping speculators and purchasers together. Not everyone who buys BTC does so to speculate.

I understand the question; however, I'm not sure the argument is correctly correlating two phenomena. Sure, if Bitcoin continues to rise, hoarding will increase; however, people who use Bitcoin and people who save it are two seperate groups. Bitcoin's value with regard to fiat versus its inherent value as a payment network are two different considerations.

Is there any information about how this attack was perpetrated? Due to the "forgot my password" being hacked, I'm assuming OP was hacked through e-mail, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?