As far as I know, if they are legit, the only way they would know is if they looked at the games you had purchased and saw the games that you installed were not on there. Otherwise, they shouldn't.
I've seen a few sites mainly stockholder circlejerk blah blah sites talking about it....but ND Twitter has said nothing and Atari has been as well...I'm wondering if this is a fake story to get Atari stock up