Police: Minneapolis neighborhood group's Zoom meeting hacked, overrun with child porn

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Minneapolis police are investigating after someone hacked into a neighborhood group’s video conference, shocking meeting-goers with a child pornographic film.

Members of the Hawthorne Huddle — a monthly meeting of business owners, community leaders, police officers and others, organized by the neighborhood’s association — were in the middle of a Zoom call Thursday when everyone’s screens were suddenly filled with the graphic images.

“Today’s Hawthorne Huddle was hacked by someone who sent an extremely explicit and disturbing child pornography video into our Zoom feed,” Ann DeGroot, of the Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board, wrote in an e-mail obtained by the Star Tribune. “(Diana Hawkins of Hawthorne Neighborhood Council) has tracked the hack to a participant’s device which will be helpful in both the investigation and in knowing how to prevent this in the future. The participant did nothing wrong.”

DeGroot’s e-mail said that the group’s meetings in the future would be password-protected to prevent similar intrusions.

https://www.startribune.com/police-minneapolis-neighborhood-group-s-zoom-meeting-hacked-overrun-with-graphic-images/570282842

[Igel]

1. Argh.

Update Zoom.

Use the password feature--don't share link, share meeting ID and, separately, password.

Use the waiting room.

Lock the meeting.

Disable screen sharing on the part of attendees.

Hell, even let the participants only chat with you, invisible to everybody else. And do *not* let them annotate the screen.

And you exit by ending the meeting for everybody, otherwise they hang out and bad things might ensue.

They say these things. Literacy's not just for losers.

They repeat these things in video. Illiteracy is not an excuse.

(I've only been using it for a month. On the other hand, I teach high school kids, immature high school kids, who like to change their screen names to things like Ben Dover, Jenny Talya, and Mike Hunt.)