The behaviour of the Komodo devs and community members has been shocking throughout this. They identified a bug in the Safecoin code, but instead of informing the developers they decided to exploit it for personal gain. To quote jl777 from their Slack - "as it is getting a million SAFE seems ok". Other users were encouraged to exploit the bug, laughing that "We are all busy getting the easy SAFE blocks".
They defend themselves saying that they were mining "according to the coin rules". They were not - what we saw was obviously not the desired behaviour of the block chain, so they were exploiting a bug. IANAL, but in some countries exploiting systems for financial gain is a criminal offence. They should be careful. They also claim that they didn't know the effect their exploit would have on the diff - what I think they really meant was that they hoped it wouldn't have such an effect of the diff and that they wouldn't have been found out so soon. As far as I am aware, no apology has been forthcoming from those involved in the exploit.
The Komodo devs seem very keen to place the blame with the Safecoin devs - "it's your own fault", "you're incompetent" etc... Should the Safecoin devs have fixed the bug before launching the coin? Probably. Is this a copy-paste quick premine clone of Komodo? I don't know. But does that excuse such a blatant attack on the network? Certainly not. The responsible thing to do would have been to inform the Safecoin devs in a private message and worked together to fix it.
I am not affiliated with Safecoin in any way, I'm just a miner. I have mined Komodo in the past, and I think they have some good technology. But I certainly won't be mining any Komodo from now on.