Unfortunately by failing to act in your own best interest and actually steal funds from Iota users, all your Media Lab team has done is perpetuate the misaligned incentives that allow rampant speculation to continue.

With traditional software companies the appropriate thing to do would be as you have done… report the problem and help with a solution. But with decentralized currencies combined with centralized media we have a serious situation. IOTA was successfully able to control the message, and use the fact that funds were not lost as proof that the problem was not severe.

I suspect it may even be provable that with the current cryptocurrency situation, the appropriate response — even for an academic research group — is far more aggressive.