A House Oversight Committee meeting was 'Zoom-bombed'

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https://www.fifthdomain.com/congress/capitol-hill/2020/04/10/a-house-oversight-committee-meeting-was-zoom-bombed/

By Andrew Eversden
Fifth Domain
April 10, 2020

The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is calling for the panel to 
stop using the Zoom videoconferencing platform for official business after a 
meeting was ‘zoom-bombed’ several times in early April.

According to a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, addressed to Oversight 
Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., an April 3 committee meeting with 
the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, was ‘zoom-bombed’ 
three times. Zoom-bombing is when a Zoom meeting is interrupted by an 
unauthorized attendee who disrupts a meeting with offensive images or language. 
The letter didn’t provide details of the incidents.

In the letter, Jordan urged Maloney to ban the use of Zoom by the committee for 
official business. Jordan cited reports of Zoom being used to deliver malware, 
occurrences of zoom-bomb attacks, an FBI warning about the platform’s 
cybersecurity protocols and concerns about Zoom’s business in China.

“Given the concerns surrounding Zoom’s security, it is clear Zoom is not an 
appropriate platform for Committee business, which may be particularly 
sensitive during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Jordan wrote.

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