Supreme Court's YouTube Channel Hacked, Promotes Crypto Firm Ripple
The hackers uploaded a video on the channel that was blank, with the title of "Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple Responds To The SEC's $2 Billion Fine! XRP PRICE PREDICTION".
(Source: Supreme Court website)
Hackers targeted the YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India on Friday, with the platform featuring a video that was promoting XRP, a cryptocurrency developed by the US-based Ripple Labs.
The video that was uploaded by the hackers was blank, with the title of "Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple Responds To The SEC's $2 Billion Fine! XRP PRICE PREDICTION".
The previous videos uploaded on the channel were apparently made private by the hackers.
Notably, the YouTube channel is used by the apex court to livestream the proceedings of the cases involving public interest, as well as those cases that are heard by its constitutional benches.
The top court had recently live-streamed the hearings of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case, which was taken up suo moto by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.
Screengrab of the Supreme Court's YouTube channel after it was hacked.
The thumbnail of the video uploaded by the hackers on the Supreme Court's YouTube channel includes an image of Brad Garlinghouse, the chief executive officer of Ripple.
In April 2020, Ripple sued YouTube, which is an arm of Alphabet Inc., for its “inexplicable failure” to prevent scammers from impersonating the company's CEO.
The blockchain firm accused YouTube of taking inadequate measures to stop scamsters who allegedly impersonated Garlinghouse to lure viewers to send XRP worth thousands of dollars as "giveaways".
"For every scam, giveaway, fake conspiracy that is taken down, multiple more pop up nearly immediately...YouTube and other big technology and social media platforms must be held accountable for not implementing sufficient processes for fighting these scams," Ripple had then reportedly stated in a blog post.
