San Leandro school leaders stated a fifth-grade zoom class was taken over by adults who displayed disturbing images to the students.
What We Know:
- San Leandro’s McKinley Elementary School is currently closed for in-person learning and students have been placed in remote learning sessions.
- The district currently has an ongoing investigation towards the incident. The school has confirmed the account and has required teachers to have security measures for all Zoom classrooms since schools were shut down in March.
- This is not the only incident involving Zoom or other online techniques used for distance remote learning. There was another experience from Eastside Union High School District located at San Jose, where a parent stated that a male teacher was instructing a class shirtless.
- Tony Thurmond State Superintendent of Public Instruction mentioned that distance learning is currently a work in progress, and the state is working with schools to address security, privacy, and proper behavior.
- Police of San Leandro have mentioned that they are aware of incidents that have involved students being exposed to disturbing material and that they are meeting with school administrators.
- The FBI has given some tips to try and avoid Zoom call hackers, stating not to make meetings or classrooms publics and not to share links to classrooms on an available publicly social media post, but instead send the link directly to specific people.
- Other advice given was to manage the screen sharing folder as well as making sure users are using or have the latest version of meeting apps or applications.
If anyone has been a victim of a teleconference hacking, or any cyber-crime, FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center states to report it at ic3.gov. Also, anyone getting particular threats throughout a teleconference is urged to report it at tips.fbi.gov.
