Comment by cube00
It seems like a lie because they tried to hide this incident by deflecting to a PR fluff post first [1]
They only published a proper [2] disclosure post later once their hand was forced after the researcher's post hit the HN front page.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954242
[2]: I use that term loosely as it seems to be AI written slop.