Hack of popular parent-teacher app left users wide open to infamous shock image [Updated]
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A popular parent-teacher messaging app called Seesaw was hacked this week, resulting in families across the US receiving a Bit.ly link displaying one of the most widely shared shock images to ever befoul the Internet.
Vice posted a blurred screenshot of the text message that some parents received, confirming that the inappropriate image shared through Seesaw was Goatse, an explicit closeup image of a man spreading his anus. Vice noted that over the years, the image has mostly been scrubbed from the Internet. However, for parents preparing to tuck in their first graders this week, its sudden resurfacing revived its original shock value from the Internet's earliest days.
In the screenshot, one parent's response was just a stunned Um ???"