before I laugh at these imbeciles again: is it more likely that someone orchestrated an attack vs just a randomly occurring bug?
knowing these jokers it will take weeks to fix and they end up rolling back the chain
ok, let the laughing commence
inflation is on par with Venezuela. the economy is awesome there!
incompetence at its finest
once again also known as top notch quality assurance from ionomy

I thought it's a bug until I saw that address that defies my (admittedly limited) knowledge of probability.
It looks like they - whoever that is - don't even hide anymore:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ion/address.dws?iWyAM4KwHun9xDSnWa2qT7Lapr1CxLwHLL.htm140% staked in ~12 hours or so. 28k coins from a single masternode. The average for a typical masternode would be is ~300 coins during the same period, or ~30 coins on a normal day.
Difficulty has completed flatlined now.
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ion/#@diff
11k blocks, 1400 orphans, 200k new coins in just over 14 hours today. Usual numbers are 1240, 50, 21k per 24 hours.