New York’s attorney general is looking into Zoom.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan at Nasdaq in New York as the company held its IPO, last year.Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

As the videoconferencing platform’s popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.

The videoconferencing app is under scrutiny by the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James.

On Monday, the office sent Zoom a letter asking what, if any, new security measures the company has put in place to handle increased traffic on its network and to detect hackers, according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.

While the letter referred to Zoom as “an essential and valuable communications platform,” it outlined several concerns, noting that the company had been slow to address security flaws such as vulnerabilities “that could enable malicious third parties to, among other things, gain surreptitious access to consumer webcams.”

Over the last few weeks, internet trolls have exploited a Zoom screen-sharing feature to hijack meetings and do things like interrupt educational sessions or post white supremacist messages to a webinar on anti-Semitism — a phenomenon called “Zoombombing.”

Reference: NY Times