{"id":30199,"date":"2020-10-16T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30199"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:04:03","slug":"hackers-infiltrated-almost-2000-robinhood-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-infiltrated-almost-2000-robinhood-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers infiltrated almost 2,000 Robinhood accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers managed to gain access to about two thousand Robinhood accounts on the crypto-friendly platform. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-15\/robinhood-estimates-hackers-infiltrated-almost-2-000-accounts\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports, citing anonymous sources.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A week earlier the platform operator said that starting in September, hackers had breached the passwords of a limited number of clients&#8217; personal email accounts. As a result, users&#8217; funds were at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The figure of 2,000 accounts may indeed seem \u00ablimited\u00bb in comparison with the company&#8217;s client base, which has reached 13 million users.<\/p>\n<p>The platform recommended using two-factor authentication. However, according to some sources, this did not shield customers from unauthorized withdrawals. Robinhood did not disclose the extent of the losses.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists note that lapses by individual Robinhood customers, as well as systemic issues on the platform, are possible explanations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robinhood-draws-the-attention-of-u-s-regulators\">reported<\/a> that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) would examine Robinhood&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Also in September, after the successful closing of the Series G funding round, Robinhood&#8217;s valuation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-friendly-robinhood-platforms-valuation-reaches-11-7-billion\">reached<\/a> $11.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers gained access to around two thousand Robinhood accounts, Bloomberg reports citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1234],"class_list":["post-30199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-robinhood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30201,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions\/30201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}