This creates some challenges, as it requires the involvement of various jurisdictions and technology companies. This is an active and ongoing investigation, and it appears that these attacks are not localized, and likely part of a larger coordinated international activity. This information not only aids us in supporting you, but will also help the investigation.

If you would like to report a Zoom-bombing or other IT incident, please utilize the online reporting system. My office is working with President Holloway, the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD), the Office of Information Technology (OIT), and the Division of Student Affairs to investigate these hate-fueled attacks with the seriousness they deserve. Please know that as Chancellor, I stand in solidarity with you, as do all of us at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Marginalized communities are too often forced to bear such hatred and navigate in spite of it, and moments like this cut and wound deeply.

While we will not give these bigoted individuals the platform they cowardly sought by going into details, I do want us all to acknowledge the harm done to Black and LGBTQ members of our community, and affirm their pain. The most recent incidents took place during Black History Month programs hosted by the Paul Robeson Cultural Center and the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBTQ Communities. I am deeply disturbed and saddened to learn of racist and bigoted Zoom-bombings that have been occurring in the past several days during non-academic student events. Dear Members of the Rutgers–New Brunswick Community:

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