Overview

• Unknown attackers seized control of the July 22 Zoom feed about 30 minutes into the session and streamed explicit content while defacing slides with swastikas.
• Mayor Christoph Stolz immediately halted the transmission and lodged a formal complaint with Bodman-Ludwigshafen police.
• Officials say the council’s long-standing practice of publicly sharing meeting credentials on Zoom exposed its online proceedings.
• IT personnel have launched a full review of access protocols to identify and close security gaps in the current system.
• The municipality plans to migrate to more secure conferencing software to prevent similar disruptions in future sessions.