If drip-feeding the details is an intentional strategy it is a stupid one. Keeping the negative story in the headlines for a day longer means it will reach more people and draw more attention.
If, for example, you deleted your account after the first report in August (a rational decision), you have no way of checking what iterations setting you had, now that people are talking about it.
It's also unclear whether you will receive any data breach notifications detailing the exact impact to your data, since your account is now deleted - do they keep a history for "post-fact" situations like this?
And of course, if you didn't keep a backup of your passwords before deleting your account, you'd have to reset everything to be sure.
Terrible, awful company with no respect for their users.