Someone hijacks online meeting of city officials, briefly flashes pornographic images – By Tony Semerad (Salt Lake Tribune) / April 27 2020
Mayors and city officials from Utah are among the latest to have their virtual gathering on Zoom hijacked and used to display inappropriate images.
About 200 elected leaders and city workers had converged remotely Monday for a teleconference by the nonprofit Utah League of Cities and Towns regarding housing and unemployment trends amid the pandemic.
Shortly after the discussion began, pornographic images began appearing on participants’ displays, apparently exploiting Zoom’s screen-sharing options, according to the league’s executive director Cameron Diehl.
Diehl said an organizer of the videoconference tried to curtail the images by turning off participation functions seconds after they appeared. When that didn’t work, they shut the meeting down entirely.
“The frustrating part is, we are in a serious time right now,” Diehl said in an interview. “So to have someone pull a prank on a call like that is absolutely ridiculous.”
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