The Hillsboro City Council meeting was interrupted on Tuesday, March 4 on the Zoom side when a pornographic image began flashing across all of the screens. The meeting, which is held in person and streamed live across Zoom to allow more people access to the meetings and provide a recording for future viewings, was paused as Hillsboro City Administrator Matt Stiles worked quickly to figure out where the cyber attack was coming from while Hillsboro Mayor Lou explained to the council, guests and Zoom attendees what was going on. “We are getting cyber-attacked via Zoom,” said Thurston. “I think that’s a first.” Eventually Stiles kicked a Zoom caller named John off, and the images ended. Thurston asked City Attorney Andrew Kovar if he had ever encountered anything like that, and he said he had heard about it but had not. “It’s just because anybody can log in. There’s no password,” said Kovar.
Source: Hillsboro Free Press
