{"id":52542,"date":"2021-11-09T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52542"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:46:01","slug":"robinhood-reports-a-data-breach-affecting-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/robinhood-reports-a-data-breach-affecting-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood reports a data breach affecting customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online broker Robinhood acknowledged a data breach of user personal data. The incident occurred on November 3, the company said in a <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blog.robinhood.com\/news\/2021\/11\/8\/data-security-incident\\\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;A third party unauthorizedly gained access to a limited amount of personal information of some of our customers,\\&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Based on the investigation, the firm believes that Social Security numbers and credit card data were not disclosed and that none of the users suffered financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the attackers used social engineering techniques against a member of the support staff and gained access to some of the service&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The company determined that the attackers obtained a list of email addresses for about five million people and full names for another group of about two million users.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In 310 accounts, additional personal information was compromised, including name, date of birth and mailing address. The hackers obtained a larger set of data for 10 users in that group.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>After the attack was contained, the attackers demanded a ransom, Robinhood said.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The company contacted law enforcement authorities and continued the investigation in cooperation with the cybersecurity firm Mandiant.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In October, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robinhood-adds-24-7-phone-support-for-users\">launched<\/a> a 24\/7 telephone-support service, Robinhood noted.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online broker Robinhood acknowledged a data breach of user personal data. The incident occurred on November 3, the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1188,1234],"class_list":["post-52542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-data-breach","tag-robinhood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542","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=52542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52544,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions\/52544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}