Anti-Semitic hackers are exploiting quarantine to infiltrate Jewish online meetings

https://forward.com/news/442568/anti-semites-zoom-hackers-video-swastikas-zoombombing/

By Molly Boigon
Forward.com
March 27, 2020

Cindy Goldberg, a school board president, was waiting for a virtual meeting to begin on Zoom Tuesday night when hackers started posting cartoon images of Hitler, photos of Nazi soldiers and swastikas to parents, board members and other staff for the school district sandwiched between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

“Awful doesn’t begin to touch it,” said Goldberg, 56, in a phone interview. “It’s horrific. It’s disgusting. It’s disheartening.”

The hackers also streamed graphic pornography and used the n-word in the meeting of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, threatening family members with sexual violence. The barrage lasted only for about a minute and a half, but, Goldberg said, “it felt like an eternity.”

The phenomenon Goldberg and the other board members, district staff and online viewers witnessed is known as “Zoombombing,” when uninvited attendees post hateful and graphic material, often including pornographic, racist and anti-Semitic images in Zoom video conferences. As life moves online in the time of coronavirus, Zoombombing is increasing.

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