The German military confirmed earlier reports of a vulnerability affecting the Webex software it uses for online meetings. In March, a leaked German military meeting was publicized by Russian media.

Germany’s military has admitted on Saturday a flaw in the video-conferencing tool it uses left thousands of its meetings publicly accessible online.

Zeit Online reported accessing German Bundeswehr meetings by using simple search terms on the military"s Webex system.

“More than 6,000 meetings could be found online,” some of which were meant to be classified, it wrote.

The military said the bug was fixed within 24 hours after being made aware.

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    7 months ago

    If you can’t join a call without authorization, and (implied) you only grant access for authorized persons, no content can leak.

    It is a sound statement, but given the Bundeswehr’s reputation, I would be surprised, if that implication above actually holds true.