Zoom may have been the darling of pandemic video calling, but a «Zoombombing» lawsuit has cost the company $85 million after users complained that their data
Zoom may have been the darling of pandemic video calling, but a “Zoombombing” lawsuit has cost the company $85 million after users complained that their data wasn’t being sufficiently safeguarded. While video conferencing saw a huge uptick as people worked remotely and schools shifted to online learning, so too did cases of Zoom calls being accessed unofficially and disrupted. That could range from unauthorized participants logging in and forcing those who were meant to be on the call to create a new video chat, through to classrooms being gatecrashed and filled with slurs and obscene material. Zoom blamed public sharing of meeting invite codes as part of the issue, though problems persisted. The end result was a lawsuit filed in March 2020, in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.
