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"Now obviously, you'd have to do that at the right time the meeting's taking place," he adds. "The problem becomes when people don't have their meetings protected by passwords, and just by flipping a couple of numbers," you could potentially get lucky and suddenly enter someone else's meeting, he says. He gives an example: To find a Zoom meeting, you enter the URL / plus a string of numbers, which serves as the meeting identification number (e.g., ). "Zoom bombing is nothing more than enumerating different URL combinations in the browser," says Dan Desko, a cybersecurity expert from accounting firm Schneider Downs, in Columbus, Ohio.

Other victims of Zoom bombing have been subjected to hate speech, profanities, threats and pornographic images.īut how could someone just "drop into" a private meeting? Other times, they totally disrupt the meetings in silly or even threatening ways. Sometimes, these folks might just listen in without anyone knowing they're there. Zoom bombing is shorthand for when strangers intrude on others' meetings on Zoom. I had never considered other people could get the Zoom number and 'drop into' a classroom." "If I had been more familiar with Zoom, I would have immediately muted everyone's audio, but I was a newbie using it online. "I wasn't sure where the audio was coming from and thought it might be background noise from one of my students," she says. She says that because she was brand-new to Zoom, the experience was confusing and disorienting. When he would not, I asked him to leave which, thankfully, he promptly did."

Only the audio was heard and he wasn't seen. "A while later, another anonymous person, this time a male, started commenting about smoking marijuana and the kind of great weed he'd found last week.