Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
On the one hand, I think this is plausible as far as conspiracy theories go. On the other hand, while Paizo would have plenty of incentive to leak, I'm not sure why they'd leak to one of their publishing partners. I'd like to think their tradecraft is better than that.
Maybe!
But then again, the one thing that I have learned, over and over and over and over and over again throughout years of discovery in civil litigation is this ....
People. Be. Stupid.