Supreme Court YouTube channel hacked, showed cryptocurrency videos

The YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India appears to have been hacked today. The Supreme Court of India channel showed videos related to cryptocurrencies created by a US company called RippleLabsSo far there is no official confirmation or statement regarding the alleged hacker attack.
Meanwhile, YouTube, which is owned by Google, appears to have removed the channel. The Supreme Court’s channel no longer appears in searches.
The Supreme Court channel, which shows live streams of Constitutional Court hearings and matters of public interest, showed promotional videos of XRPThe cryptocurrency was developed by Ripple Labs – which operates an exchange network for the digital currency XRP aimed at people who want to send money internationally.
The “hack” was discovered when an empty video titled “Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple responds to SEC’s $2 billion fine! “XRP PRICE PREDICTION” went live on the channel. All previous videos of the Supreme Court hearings were made private afterward.

Hackers have already compromised other channels to show crypto videos

This is not the first time that a YouTube channel featuring cryptocurrency videos from the same company – Ripple Labs – has been hacked. Several reports claim that scammers created official-sounding accounts for Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Some of the accounts were reportedly stolen from successful YouTubers whose accounts were hacked, meaning the scammers got hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
In 2020, cryptocurrency company sued YouTube for its “inexplicable failure” to stop scammers from impersonating its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The company accused the video platform of selling ads and verifying accounts promoting fake cryptocurrency giveaways. It also claimed that it ignored complaints about the identity fraud allegations.
Ripple said the company filed the lawsuit to “create an industry-wide behavior change and create an expectation of accountability.”
Last month, Ripple Labs was ordered by a Manhattan judge to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a fine of approximately $125 million for allegedly illegally selling the cryptocurrency XRP.