My chatlogs from then show that this was first discovered on an IRC channel and then I notified the V author as soon as I could.
This was not my finest hour, but the server was good and confirmed as not coming back online about a day before I posted that advisory.
You can believe what you want about this, you seem unconvinceable either way. Also see https://github.com/Xe/site for the git tree behind my site code and blogposts.
I did notice then though that the playground was taken down, and there is this: https://web.archive.org/web/20191223200601/https://christine... (unfortunately I could not find an earlier snapshot, sorry)