In this file photo, a Zoom logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen with a computer keyboard in the background. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Joao Kokovlis/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Zoom was plagued by security issues early in the pandemic, which led to the disruptive practice of "Zoomboming," the term coined to describe hackers who broke into videoconferencing meetings being held by others.
In April of 2020, the FBI said it had received multiple reports of conferences and online classrooms being disrupted by pornographic, hateful images or threatening language.
In one example, a high school in Massachusetts reported that someone dialed into the classroom while a teacher was conducting an online class and the.