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Cyberbulling Takes A

Teacher’s Life

An intrusion to an online teaching platform is considered a new type of cyberbullying
and arouses cyber security awareness.
By Molisa Meng

igh school student Alina “My mind totally went blank when lar functions as Zoom, to host an
Liang* does not want to it happened. It’s like we were wit- online class as usual when some
Htake online classes any- nessing the whole incident, but unknown users hacked into the
more as her history teacher died we could not do anything. I still online conference room.
from a heart attack after being feel upset when I think about my
bullied during an online class. The teacher. I still cannot believe that “They turned on the microphones,
16-year-old deleted her online happened,” she says. spoke abusive language, made
course software, DingDing, in No- annoying noises like sounds of
vember 2022. On October 28, 2022, 46-year-old alarms and posted videos about
history teacher Liu Hanbo from sex and violence. My teacher tried
Liang and her classmates are sad- Xinzheng No 3 High School in to kick the intruders out. But after
dened by the tragedy, which casts a Henan used DingDing, a video a few seconds, they re-entered the
great shadow over her. conferencing software with simi- room several times and cursed at