THOUSANDS of Zoom videos including confidential therapy sessions are viewable online exposing a major security flaw in its software.
The video chat app has exploded in popularity and now boasts million daily users due in large part to the coronavirus lockdown around the world.
Videos are not recorded by default however other users are not asked for their consent when the host of the chats hit the save button.
However, everyone in the group does receive a notification when the record button is pressed.
Lots of the videos can be easily found on popular Amazon storage space, known as buckets.
Many users make the storage space accessible meaning they can be watched and downloaded by others.
Footage viewed by the Post include private therapy sessions, business meetings discussing company finances and school classes involving small children.
One video involved a tutorial on how to give a Brazilian bikini wax and featured nudity.
The key flaw in the software is not having users create their own unique file name while saving their own videos, the report says.
In a blog post this week, Zoom chief executive Eric Yuan admitted the company, founded in , did not expect to become the most popular app of its kind in the US in a matter of a few weeks.
He wrote: “We did not design the product with the foresight that, in a matter of weeks, every person in the world would suddenly be working, studying, and socializing from home.”
Mr Yuan said the new user base was using Zoom in a number of “unexpected ways, presenting us with challenges we did not anticipate when the platform was conceived.”
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