How to Prevent and Respond to Zoombombing


Introduction

This page explains how to prevent Zoombombing, and how to respond to it if it happens in one of your meetings. This is not a procedure for Zoombombing in classs meetings.

Zoombombing is when uninvited participants join a Zoom meeting, usually revealing their presence in offensive ways. Zoombombing is possible when an intruder finds, receives, or guesses a Zoom meeting ID for an unprotected meeting.


How to Prevent Zoombombing

As a meeting host, you should enable the following settings to secure your meeting:

Require meeting password

Enabling this will prevent anyone without the password from using a meeting ID to join the meeting.

People who click on the link in your meeting invitation don't need to enter the password.

Enable waiting room

This option allows you to manually admit each person one by one. If you have a small group of attendees, this is another easy way to protect your meeting from intruders.

You should not do this for classes.

Only authenticated users can join meetingsThis requires all attendees to be logged in to Zoom with their username and password, making it difficult for anonymous users to join your meeting.
Lock meeting

Once your participants have all joined the meeting you can lock the meeting, so no one else can join.

  1. Click on Participants.
  2. Click on More.
  3. Select Lock Meeting.

You can follow the same steps to unlock your meeting if necessary.



How to Respond to Zoombombing

Follow these steps to block or remove a user.

StepWhat to Do
1Click Participants to open the Participants sidebar.
2Mouse over the user in the participants list.
3Click More.
4

Select Stop Video just to stop the user's video. They can't re-enable it without your approval.

Select Remove to remove the user from the meeting. They won't be able to join the meeting again.

Select Report to report the user to Zoom's Trust and Safety team for review.