I really don't suspect there was anything devious about it. While inconvenient, it's not life threatening.
It's possible it is housed in the same building and maintained, at least for now, by the CS department. When you went to the Support portion of the site, it basically looked the same as it did before the big Web change so to me that tells me it could be a separate server than where the main page is hosted.
Make sense to me as well since they need to maintain the inventory and CS records.
