Possibly, but it may have required more time, and they will fix it next week.

I don't know whats going on behind the scene, maybe they've been in an escalated battle with screen scrapes and did this as a last resort to get it 'solved' by end of week?

Adding a randomness that is required to actually stop screen scrapes is more than just adding a captcha or re-c, not to mention those are proven to be very annoying and customers don't get them right and think it is their fault, sometimes they are just unreadable gibberish! It really isn't the long term answer, as it can be defeated with the simple types, very easily the best system is a multi faceted approach that requires multiple small steps that aren't easily duplicated. They could also make a custom image verification system using their own library of images, logos and logic.