One of San Francisco’s oldest churches is suing video conferencing platform Zoom, after its online bible study was flooded with porn in a cyber-attack.
On Wednesday, a proposed class action lawsuit was filed against Zoom by Saint Paulus Lutheran Church after its May 6 Bible study, “had their computer screens hijacked and their control buttons disabled while being forced to watch pornographic video footages,” USA Today reports.
The complaint was filed by the church and church administrator Heddi N. Cundle in the U.S District Court in San Jose, California.
In response, Zoom addressed the incident in an emailed statement.
“We were deeply upset to hear about this incident, and our hearts go out to those impacted by this horrific event. On the same day we learned of this incident, we identified the offender, took action to block their access to the platform and reported them to the relevant authorities,” the statement read.
According to the Christian Post, the lawsuit claims that Zoom failed to “implement proper security measures to protect users’ privacy and secure their videoconferences.” This action, the lawsuit argues, is what allows “Zoombombing” to occur.
The suit also claims that Zoom “uses data-mining tools to collect users’ personal information and shares it with third parties without the users’ consent” in order to provided targeted…
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