The hack occurred several weeks before problems with heart bleed surfaced so I don't think that was the case.
Well the bug existed for two years.... Several weeks sounds about right for the exploits to have started. The announcement was made when the fix was almost ready because it was being exploited so they couldn’t hold off until the fix was perfected.
In any case im mostly interested to see if any exchange was exploited using heartbleed because they are such high value targets i wouldnt have been surprised. Also amazed one of the smaller ones hasnt claimed to have lost everything to heartbleed and run with the money. I expected i would have heard about it by now.