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The good news is that they are going to cover the losses: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135919.msg1448056#ms... edit: I was wrong about the title, see below comment.

No, some other site (https://bitcoin-central.net/) fixed it within 5 minutes, not the one that was compromised (https://vircurex.com/).

Vircurex developer Kumala says on the thread that they will cover the losses:

"Before the wild speculations beginn, the service will be recovered and we pay the losses out of our own pockets."