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6,000 meetings exposed; bug makes German confidential links public

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Zeit Online
  • 5 May 2024 11:32
3 Min Read

The floundering German military was only aware of the security breach after reporters requested a comment on the issue.

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  • Webex bug makes German military confidential links publicly available
    Soldiers of the German forces, Bundeswehr, stand in front of a Boxer military vehicle, a new type of armored personnel carrier, at the Julius Leber Barracks in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP)

Germany's military admitted that an error in a video-conferencing tool it uses left thousands of its meetings publicly accessible online. 

Zeit Online, a German news outlet, said that it was possible to access German Bundeswehr meetings by using search terms on the military's Cisco Webex, a popular web conferencing company, system. 

"More than 6,000 meetings could be found online," some of which were meant to be classified, the news outlet reported. 

The German military said that the bug was fixed within 24 hours after it was made aware of the error. 

Germany has faced previous issues with Webex, dating back to early March 2024, when authorities admitted that Russian intelligence members were able to access a highly confidential meeting discussing the war in Ukraine, due to a mistake made by one of the attendees. 

However, German authorities said that the recently unveiled bug has only allowed users to discover links to the meetings and has not allowed users to enter live meetings which need authorization from participants or hosts. Nonetheless, it is not known if users were able to access some of the meetings due to human error, as the German military insists that no confidential information was leaked from these meetings. 

The magnitude of the issue surpasses the portrayal by German officials, with Zeit Online revealing it was able to detect meeting rooms utilized by 248,000 German soldiers.

Reporters were able to find the online meeting room of Air Force Chief Ingo Gerhartz, whose name came up during the earlier breach in March. The news outlet said that the military only became aware of the security flaws after they approached them for comment.

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A leak back in March revealed that the Bundeswehr was planning to destroy the Crimean Bridge, the same one Ukraine admitted to bombing, with possible involvement from US and British troops, according to the editor-in-chief of Russia Today (RT), Margarita Simonyan, citing a 38-minute leaked audio.

Simonyan went on to submit official inquiries to German diplomatic figures, seeking clarification about the issue that would terribly impact Russian-German relations, as well as NATO's involvement in the Ukraine war.

The leak, which dates back to a February 19 audio, reveals officers discussing the operational and targeting details of the homegrown Taurus long-range missiles, which Germany was mulling sending to Ukraine. Interestingly, the way it was being discussed insinuated that it had already been agreed upon. The officers were also discussing means of maintaining plausible deniability so that Germany could tread as closely as possible to the "red line" of direct involvement without crossing it.

Later, German authorities blamed the leak on unsecured networks and human error. 

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