I laughed when I heard that. No way.
Sorry, Bongo, but it's true. CMDR XDeath found it that way.
Here's the forum thread where he asks for the Community for an in-lore explanation of how he found it, since "I found it in the game trailer" wasn't a very immersive response to the question.
And yes, it's entirely likely that we found it "way too early" because of this, and FD weren't ready to implement the planned gameplay around it.
However, I do note that on page 3 of the thread I just linked to, there is a link to the Galnet article announcing the discovery, which does indeed name the system:
Article.