Zoombombing
Men are lying their way into private Zoom meetings to expose themselves and masturbate on camera
Insider - March 11th, 2022
When the world shifted online at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, millions of Americans were introduced to Zoom — and to "Zoombombing." Uninvited internet trolls slid into all kinds of public Zoom events, taking over the screen-share function and subjecting users to porn and racial slurs.
Zoom fought back, encouraging users to take their group meetings private and adding obstacles like authentication for users to join, passcodes for access, and a waiting room. (In August, the company settled for $85 million in a class-action suit that claimed it didn't do enough to prevent Zoombombing. As part of the settlement, Zoom agreed to further increase security measures.)
But across the country, users say a new group of Zoombombers has emerged: men who lie or steal others' authentication codes to enter a private room, with the intention of masturbating and exposing themselves to groups of strangers.