In some sense this news was surprising and great (40k is I'd estimate, ~0.5% of the unique monthly players!), but the release was also a bit misleading. The par

In some sense this news was surprising and great (40k is I'd estimate, ~0.5% of the unique monthly players!), but the release was also a bit misleading. The part "With that goal in mind, we released a patch as soon as we understood the method these cheats were using" is just outright false - there are numerous open-source Dota cheat engines which have been around and in working order for many years.