Zoom pays huge compensation

Zoom will pay more compensation than ever before to the "victims" of zoom bombing. 

Lock-in and the home office have taken video conferencing platforms to unprecedented heights, and Zoom has been a huge hit during the coronavirus epidemic. But the platform was far from perfect, as uninvited people could join the conversation and take control from the moderator.

Some 14 lawsuits were filed against the San Jose-based company between March 2020 and May 2020, alleging that the company violates users' privacy and security - from a The Guardian. In cases known as zoomombing, or zoombombing, hackers or malicious individuals have entered various virtual meetings without fail to send abusive messages and images to participants.

In one such incident, St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Francisco was attacked by an unknown perpetrator who turned off the treatment systems and displayed pornographic videos to attendees, including footage of children having sexual harassment and physical abuse. On another occasion, participants in a virtual Sunday mass were bombarded with child pornography.

Users who suffered emotional scars eventually filed a class-action lawsuit against Zoom, which was recently settled: the video conferencing provider will pay $85 million to the victims, and the company has agreed to upgrade the site to a more secure interface in the near future.