As over thousands of people across the globe have resorted to social distancing and quarantine, there’s been a sharp surge in users of different video conferencing apps like Zoom, HouseParty, and such. Zoom has been caught under scrutiny over privacy and security issues, but it appears that the recent security controversies haven’t affected the app’s user base that much. Zoom CEO, Eric Yuan, recently revealed during a webinar that the user base for the app grew by 50% to over 300 million people that used Zoom as on April 21.

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Zoom got into security related issues as several reports around how unsafe the app is surfaced on the internet. There have been privacy concerns in the app where it leaked user’s personal information online. Moreover, another concern emerged in the form of ‘zoombombing’ where uninvited users broke into chats to interrupt and disturb the online meetings being held on the app.

Even the National cyber-security agency, Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), warned against the security vulnerability of the app and said it’ll issue safety measures for operators and the users of the app. India further joined the list of other countries and expressed concern about the security of Zoom, where it called it “not a safe platform”.

Eric S. Yuan, Zoom’s CEO and founder, had also issued an apology on the company’s blog addressing the users where he stated that Zoom ‘fell short’ of the community’s and its own ‘privacy and security expectations’.

Zoom also announced that it plans on releasing its Zoom 5.0 update this week and will address the user complaints. The update will bring a slew of new security-oriented features including a security icon, AES 256-bit GCM encryption, host controls, cloud recording passwords, and more.