Truly big heists like the Mt. Gox collapse have received research attention, yes. There are some firms which will follow the transactions and try to find patter

Truly big heists like the Mt. Gox collapse have received research attention, yes. There are some firms which will follow the transactions and try to find patterns. However, for a relatively small amount like this it's probably futile. It's trivial (though costly) to run the funds through a public mixer several times, or to trade it for Monero, which has a ledger that's much more difficult to analyze.