I wouldn't trust anything CryptoCoinNews puts out. They're a bunch of amateurs and will post anything just to get some hits to their crappy site. The hack was probably just done by an opportunist who found a hole and attacked though I'd like to see evidence or find out the ultimate reasoning behind the attacks. .
Betteridge's law of headlines
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist.
Haha.