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

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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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