Zoom Bombing is the activity of attending an online meeting without permission and sending or blocking inappropriate content.
Typical Attacks
- Entering a university lecture and showing inappropriate content
- Blocking a business meeting
- Pornographic content during child education
- Leaking meeting information
Related Crimes
- TCK art.243 entering the information system
- TCK art.244 blocking the system
- TCK art.226 obscenity (inappropriate content)
- TCK art.125 insult
Liability of the Meeting Organizer
- Inadequate security (lack of password) → partial liability
- KVKK (participant data leak)
- Pecuniary compensation for victims
Preventive Measures
- Meeting password is mandatory
- Waiting room active
- Screen sharing only for hosts
- Participant list control
- Not sharing the meeting link openly to the public
- End-to-end encryption
Victim (Educational Institution, etc.) Rights
- Criminal complaint
- Pecuniary damage
- Aggravation if there is a child
- Administrative investigation (institutional responsibility)
Supreme Court 8. CD
8. CD accepts that online meeting attacks are “more than one cybercrime” committed together and will be punished with heavy concurrence.
Information law lawyer is recommended.