@nprofile1q... I've removed this from our server now so you shouldn't see any more requests from us to that endpoint.
It had been there in our code unchanged for a few years now - but for some reason in the last 48 hours the load on our endpoints has massively increased almost 10x so that's definitely the cause - I'm trying to figure out why this happened. Will follow up once I know more on why.
Sorry for the disruption!