Supreme Court YouTube channel hacked; Hackers made live video related to cryptocurrency!

 

On Friday, a video promoting ‘cryptocurrency’ produced by American company ‘Ripple Labs’ started appearing on the Supreme Court’s YouTube channel. However, when the video was opened, nothing was visible on it. A caption beneath the video read, ‘Brad Garlinghouse: Ripple Responds to the SEC’s $2 Billion Fine! XRP Price Prediction.

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Supreme Court launched YT channel in 2018

The Supreme Court uses YouTube to stream live hearings of cases listed before Constitution benches and involving public interest. The unanimous decision was taken at a full court meeting chaired by then CJI UU Lalit. Under this, the apex court had decided to live-stream all the constitution bench hearing proceedings after an important judgment on the case in 2018.

How to recognize that a YouTube channel has been hacked

If you want to protect your YouTube account from being hacked, you will have to take some important steps. The first way to detect such attacks is that the user is unable to sign in to the hacked YouTube account. Tampering with your account settings and associated email address without your knowledge is an indication that your account has been hacked.