It's the latest craze. Has the world gone mad? It's like the frickin night of the living dead out there.
Anyway, I have a friend that works for Niantic.
He generally is a pretty rational guy, but came to me all flustered the other day ranting and raving about some vulnerability. Apparently, they have created some sort of hidden super-rare character, except, they didn't create it. It's just there in the code and they can't figure out where it came from. It's some sort of bear looking pig but dressed as a man.
I tried to sketch what he described but I suck at drawing:
Long story short, there is strong speculation that they will shut down the servers soon for fear that whoever has hacked the code plans on releasing this 'hidden, super-rare' character into strategic geographic locations and round up all the zombies. Please be careful out there....