In another security blow, thousands of private Zoom videos can be found online

[Yoni Heisler]

• Zoom's video conferencing software has soared in popularity over the past few weeks as millions of people remain stuck at home on coronavirus quarantine.
• Zoom's privacy record leaves much to be desired as the company has faced one controversy after another.
• Most recently, it was discovered that thousands of private Zoom video chats can be viewed online.
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With millions of people stuck at home because of the coronavirus, Zoom's video conferencing software has absolutely skyrocketed in popularity over the past few weeks. Just this week, the company said that the number of people using its software on a daily basis jumped from 10 million in December to 200 million in March. That's an astounding increase and, not surprisingly, shares of Zoom have more than doubled in that same period.

Zoom's ascension, however, hasn't been an entirely smooth ride. The company in recent weeks has had to contend with one controversy after another. At first, word surfaced that the Zoom app on iOS was sending analytics data to Facebook, regardless of whether a user had a Facebook account of not. Following that, we learned that email addresses and photos of some Zoom users were leaking out. And of course, there was that pesky issue of strangers "zoombombing" third-party calls.

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In another security blow, thousands of private Zoom videos can be found online originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:00:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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