SC Youtube Channel Hacked: Cybercrime is spreading like wildfire across the country. Recently, the Supreme Court’s YouTube channel has been hacked. On opening the channel, an ad video of the cryptocurrency XRP of the American company ‘Ripple Labs’ is being shown on it.
According to Bar and Bench, hackers hacked the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court. The official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court has more than two lakh subscribers. On accessing it, people were being shown black videos promoting cryptocurrency developed by the US-based company Ripple Labs.
The Supreme Court YouTube channel broadcasts live hearings of cases being heard in constitutional benches and cases of public interest. Recently, the hearing on the suo motu petition in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case was live-streamed on YouTube. Hackers had made the videos of the earlier hearing private and ran an ad for the cryptocurrency XRP.
Made the video private
Hackers made all the videos of the channel private and ran advertisements of cryptocurrency XRP. According to the report, cyber scammers are defrauding people around the world on a large scale by creating fake accounts in the name of Ripple Labs and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. After hacking famous YouTube channels with millions of subscribers, these scammers post their promotional videos on them and extort huge amounts of money with huge profits.
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