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The Supreme Court’s YouTube channel was hacked on Friday and a video advertising cryptocurrency made by US company Ripple Labs started airing on it. However, when the video was clicked, nothing was visible on it. Below the video was written Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple responds to the SEC’s $2 billion fine. XRP price prediction. The apex court has been using YouTube to stream the hearing of cases listed before the Constitution Benches and matters of public interest. The apex court had decided in 2018 to live stream the hearing of all cases before the Constitution Benches.

Recently, the suo motu hearing on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case was live streamed on YouTube. The videos of the earlier hearing have apparently been made private by the hackers. A blank video titled “Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple reacts to SEC’s $2 billion fine! XRP price prediction” is currently live on the hacked channel. Hacking of popular video channels by scammers is rampant and Ripple itself had sued YouTube after it failed to fend off hackers impersonating its CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

According to a report from The Verge, over the past several months scammers have created official-looking accounts for Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Some of the accounts were apparently stolen from successful YouTubers whose accounts had been hacked. This allowed the scammers to gain hundreds of thousands of subscribers. From there they could post videos offering large XRP rewards in exchange for small initial payments, deceiving viewers who thought they were watching Ripple’s channel.

Supreme Court of India’s YouTube channel appears to be hacked and is currently showing videos of US-based company Ripple. pic.twitter.com/zuIMQ5GTFZ

— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2024