I believe there was an exchange of PMs involved as well but my understanding of the whole thing was that Hajji Rudi had been warned previously about making claims of unauthorized access to the Island servers and this was just the proverbial last straw. Perhaps one of the Admins can give you more detail.

BTW, the video that started this whole thread is up over 13,000 views now. It took a big jump over the last week after someone used it on Reddit.