WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Only three days into the new school year, Triad schools report at least two cases of hacking during online learning.
According to tech experts, it's called "Zoom bombing" or "Zoom raiding," where hackers interrupt the lesson plans - intentionally causing commotion during a virtual meeting.
For both Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools and Alamance Burlington Schools, these cases were obscene and inappropriate.
Although no students roamed the halls or sat at desks inside Southeast Middle School in Forsyth County - or at Graham High School in Alamance County - disruptions derailed two classes on Tuesday.
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools says someone yelled obscenities and made inappropriate gestures during a virtual art class at Southeast. A spokesperson for the district says the individual was on a Southeast Middle student - but did attend another school.
At Graham High, Alamance-Burlington Schools is investigating after an unknown instigator used inappropriate, disrespectful language and used derogatory racial slurs. A district spokesperson says the individual is not an ABSS student - but believes the incident may be part of a wave of similar events happening across the state.
"What you were seeing is what we call 'Zoom bombing,'" said Ron Pierce, president of Trinity Solutions, Inc., a Greensboro IT company, "Simply put it is somebody who is not supposed to be in a Zoom conference shows up and decides that they are going to make a spectacle of themselves."
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