It is incredibly unlikely that the TD Ameritrade database issue had ANYTHING to do with the R/S announcement, for the simple fact that people who use eTrade, Scottrade, Sharebuilder, etc. all got the exact same announcement.
Who did it and why? It is totally related to NWOG because they played on the whole RS rumour. They also did this with Scottrade and others. Whoever did this must have had a huge stake in NWOG and a lot of money lost. It is odd to play this out with NWOG. I have a bad feeling that trading will be halted soon by all of these brokers.
I'll repeat what I've said before several times now. I think this is a SKAM! Someone targeted our already beaten down NWOG and their trying to get lots of shares on the cheep to cheet us out of our money. Time will tell but I'm sticking ot my story.