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The $1,000 limit is only for unverified accounts. Also, it's possible that the BTC was transferred into the account months ago when it was worth vastly less. Or the BTC was accrued through trading.

Or it wasn't a real account...

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According to MtGox they attackers ran into the $1000 limit, so it was not a verified account.

This part of their story was made up to cover themselves. The "attackers" didn't run into any limit. They sold off a bunch of bit coins. A legitimate user bought then and then (sensibly) tried to get them out of the system, hitting the limit.

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