Thousands of private Zoom video recordings exposed online


The exposed Zoom videos can be found on unprotected swathes of Amazon storage space, known as buckets, and have even been uploaded onto sites like YouTube and Vimeo. — AFP

Thousands of Zoom video call recordings have been left exposed on the open web, according to a report by The Washington Post.

Among some videos that the news outlet sighted included personal therapy sessions, company business meetings involving private financial records, and online classes where schoolchildren's details were visible to anyone viewing the recordings.

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