Zoom Data Leak: Thousands of Video Call Recordings Exposed Online

US law enforcement agencies had previously warned that the service has problems with data storage and privacy.

Thousands of personal videos from the video conferencing app Zoom were made publicly accessible on YouTube and Vimeo. This is reported by The Washington Post.

The newspaper checked a number of recordings and found that they included both employee training sessions and conversations between doctors and patients, during which personal details and phone numbers were mentioned. Recordings of business meetings were also posted online, including financial reporting data, intimate conversations, and personal information about primary school children.

Many of the videos contain information that makes it possible to identify individuals. Some of them contain images of nude bodies.

Videos on the Zoom video conferencing service are not recorded by default, but meeting organizers can choose to record them and save them on Zoom's servers or on their own computers without the consent of all participants, although participants receive a notification when recording begins.

During the quarantine, the Zoom app became very popular for remote work and learning. However, a number of experts have identified vulnerabilities in the app. NASA and Elon Musk's company SpaceX banned their employees from using Zoom. US law enforcement agencies have also warned that the service has problems with data storage and privacy.