Zoom to pay $85 million to settle "Zoombombing" lawsuit

Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit over customer privacy and security breaches linked to thousands of "Zoombombing" incidents nationwide.

The class-action suit, filed last year in California, also accused Zoom of sharing users' data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn without users' permission. The complaint blamed the technology company for incidents on its platform, claiming that lax security failed to stop the attacks.  Zoombombing happens when a hacker or an uninvited guest crashes a videoconference and posts pornographic or hate images or otherwise to disrupt the meeting. Most of the incidents mentioned in the suit took place last year as the nation switched from in-person work rituals to video meetings. Zoom executives acknowledged the issue last year and said they have since changed their security practices.