The Supreme Court's YouTube channel was hacked on Friday (September 20). The top court's YouTube channel was showing a video promoting US-based cryptocurrency XRP, 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.
Now the channel has been removed by YouTube due to community guideline violence. On this channel, the hearing of the cases coming before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court and the cases related to public interest are live streamed. Recently, the hearing of the RG Kar Medical College, rape and murder case was live streamed.
A blank video titled “Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple reacts to SEC's $2 billion fine! XRP price prediction” was live on the hacked channel.
Supreme Court channel has been removed by YouTube due to community guideline violence.
Supreme Court's IT team sought help from NIC
A senior Supreme Court official said that we are not sure about what exactly has happened. But it seems that the channel has been tampered with. He said that the problem in the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court was noticed on Friday morning and the Supreme Court IT team has sought help from the National Informatics Center (NIC) to fix it.
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