The developer claimed in a tweet on January 1 that the suspected hackers had acquired access to his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) key, a popular security technique that employs two keys to access encrypted data. He did not disclose the complete amount of his stolen Bitcoins in the conversation, but he did give a wallet address where part of them had been sent.
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, CEO of Binance, also took notice of the tragedy and expressed his sympathy and support in a post on January 1. In a Reddit discussion from January 1, a user going by the name SatStandard said that Dashjr might not have taken the security flaw of November 17 extremely sufficient and subsequently claimed that the Bitcoin developer did not maintain distinct operations isolated. The PC he used for everything else included Hot Wallet. He seemed to have been quite smug.
Others, though, seem to imply that it wasn't a breach at all and that the seed word was either accidentally discovered or involved in a "boating mishap" just in time for tax season.