As the CEO of IRC.com, I can say that Mark Karpeles has nothing to do with the project nor does he have access to any of the infrastructure IRC.com runs on. His work goes towards other projects that London Trust Media has running.

I’ve been running the open source kiwiirc.com project for around 7 years and have always been very careful of who has access to what and so far has been clear of any issues. Hopefully I can now bring the same scrutiny and planning to IRC.com too!