There's no room for Zoom at SpaceX, it would seem.

Elon Musk's aerospace manufacturing firm has barred its staff from using Zoom over security concerns and is said to have disabled all company access to the videoconferencing service, effective immediately.

People familiar with the matter told Reuters that SpaceX staff members had been told to use email, text, or phone calls instead.

In a whirlwind 48-hour period this week, reports surfaced that Zoom didn't use end-to-end encryption for its video meetings and had leaked thousands of users' email addresses to strangers.

It's also been suggested that attackers could use the Zoom Windows client to steal network credentials.

The security concerns have emerged in spite or perhaps because of a huge surge in Zoom use around the world. Amid a coronavirus-induced increase in remote working, Zoom is thought to have gained more users so far this year than it did in all of 2019.

In a statement on its website published Wednesday, Zoom's founder, Eric Yuan, said the firm was "looking into each and every one" of the security concerns raised and "addressing them as expeditiously as we can."

"We did not design the product with the foresight that, in a matter of weeks, every person in the world would suddenly be working, studying, and socializing from home," he added.

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