Hello, here is a question I have been mulling over for a while.

If an exchange is hacked and at that time your bitcoins are lent out, and are "stolen", does this have legal implications and possibly help you because the bitcoins were not in your possession? Would the account you were lending them to have the duty to return them? You had no access to them at the time of the hack. As you may know some exchanges have this lending feature.

Any thoughts on this? Would it be any "safer" for one to have the coins lent out, or create possible advantageous legal avenues to explore?