Apple always respond like that. It's their ironic calling card. Not exactly news. Next up, Microsoft run around headless chickens after Windows problem uncovered.
Mostly a gripe at sloppy journalism, that story is over a week old and mostly about lawyers might sue someone. Yeah, really. Still, it makes a break from those stories were they simply annotate things people have said about something on Twitter.
Anyway, they can't really win. If they didn't lock down compromised phones, there'd be a stories about someone having their credit card maxed out through Apple Pay.