https://twitter.com/bitcoinprivate/status/1077230753212055552That's insane statement why they would take so long time to clear doubts of community potentially it could bring disaster and price would collapse. Maybe they are waiting for this kind of moment and these allegations of premine becoming reality.
Would not surprise me to hear that the Developer's themselves were behind this and they have just been caught out.
They probably had that canned response sitting and waiting for the time if and when they ever got found out.
This token can no longer be trusted nor can any fork of it.
I bet they made a lot of money on selling many of the secret 2M coins by drip feeding them into exchanges.