The YouTube stream of the Calcutta High Court is attacked by hackers with obscene content.
Hackers played pornographic material during a court session on Monday, disrupting the Calcutta High Court's live-stream in a startling cybersecurity breach. The feed was quickly stopped by the court's IT staff and then resumed under stricter supervision.
During a live-streamed session in courtroom number 7, which was presided over by Justice Subhendu Samanta, the Calcutta High Court experienced an unprecedented cybersecurity breach on Monday. The court streamed the session on YouTube as part of a transparency program, allowing the public to watch court proceedings. But when hackers disrupted the live feed with pornographic material, the program took an unsettling turn that shocked both court staff and viewers.
It took the court's IT staff approximately a minute to remove the offensive video clip from the live feed. After this sudden interruption, the live stream was quickly stopped. In order to avoid more security breaches, the court later resumed the broadcast using a different link.
The court's vacation season coincided with this cyber intrusion, making it more difficult to respond right away because fewer IT personnel were accessible. To find the culprits, the court's IT section has started a thorough investigation and lodged a formal complaint with the cybercrime division of the Kolkata Police.
Regretfully, there have been multiple cyberattacks on court live feeds throughout India that are comparable to this one. The Supreme Court's YouTube account was breached just last month, causing illegal bitcoin advertisements to appear in place of court proceedings.
Following a historic 2018 ruling, the Supreme Court started live-streaming important cases in an effort to increase judicial transparency. The 2022 Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota was the subject of the first significant live-streamed case. To make sure that cybersecurity risks don't thwart the judiciary's efforts towards transparency, these recent occurrences are forcing a review of security procedures on the online platforms used to broadcast court proceedings live.
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