BENOFTHEWEEK (partially found series of "ZOOM hacking" videos from YouTuber; 2020)

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Status: Partially Found

At an unknown date in May 2020, YouTuber benoftheweek posted a video titled "hacking preschool ZOOM classes…" in which he shows himself infiltrating and disturbing Zoom classes. This would later spark a series of videos of them breaking into ZOOM classes such as a follow-up video that was made soon enough titled "hacking middle school ZOOM classes" was posted on September 27th, 2020. Other subsequent videos titled "hacking highschool ZOOM classes" was posted in January 10th, 2021 and the fourth and last video was called “hacking Zoom classes for the LAST TIME” and was uploaded as a premiere on April 18th, 2021.

Controversy

On August 27th, 2020, the CBS Channel mentioned these controversy among many more other Zoom hacking incidents. On the YouTube upload, benoftheweek stated in the comments section "i may have dropped out of journalism in college but it seems like y'all did too, i never HACKED any zoom calls and it explicitly states that it the description of the video." .

Benoftheweek soon made an episode on his podcast "I ALMOST DIED" stating that he would never make any videos of hacking into Zoom meetings ever again, distancing himself from the situation. Around three months later, he deleted his "ZOOM hacking" videos and soon addressed this in his podcast "Dramamama".

Availability

After the deletion of the ZOOM videos, the only way to view the videos was a reupload of the hacking ZOOM classes... Video. Clips of the first video can be seen in the CBS channel 13 news Sacramento coverage. Thumbnails and descriptions have also been found from “hacking into people’s INSTAGRAM accounts”.

On August 1st, 2024, LMW user GrigioGuy provided the video files for "hacking middle school ZOOM classes" and "hacking highschool ZOOM classes" linked in MEGA.