https://coincodex.com/article/2962/dominic-schiener-says-majority-of-iota-tokens-stolen-by-fake-seed-generator-have-been-found/
Now, the next question is: How on Earth can you recover the stolen tokens from the thief? A hard fork? I believe its the only solution but a solution that damages a crypto's reputation.
Why a hard fork. If my IOTAs were be stolen because I used a website for seed creation, what I did aswell, without changing some characters, because we all know, you can not trust anyone in the internet, then this is your personal mistake. There was no hard fork because GOX stole Bitcoins from their costumer. It is your personal risk everyday.
The best solution would be that the person, who have been stolen, can authorize that the IOTAs belongs to him to get the IOTAs back. Otherwise the IOTAs should be spread via an auction like they did with other crypto currencies.
Did you read my post before you posted this? There was no single word about a hard fork.
IOTA has been in Mainnet for a long time.