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The YouTube channel of the Supreme Court was hacked on Friday. The YouTube channel of the apex court was showing videos promoting US-based cryptocurrency XRP, which is developed by Ripple Labs. A blank video titled “Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple reacts to SEC’s $2 billion fine! XRP price prediction” was live on the hacked channel.
Earlier, the hackers changed the name of the channel and made the videos of earlier hearings private. Now the channel has been removed by YouTube due to community guideline violence.
The hearing of cases coming before the Constitution Bench of the apex court and matters related to the public interest are live-streamed on this YouTube channel. Recently, the hearing of the RG Kar Medical College, rape and murder case was live-streamed.
A senior Supreme Court official said, “We are not sure about what exactly has happened. But it seems that the channel has been tampered and hacked.” He added that the problem in the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court was noticed on Friday morning and the Supreme Court’s IT team has sought help from the National Informatics Center (NIC) to fix it.
Ripple itself has sued YouTube for failing to stop hackers from creating a fake account of its CEO Brad Garlinghouse.
