Robinhood announced Tuesday that it was experiencing Millions of email addresses were obtained by hackers. The company explained that a hacker had tricked a customer support employee into giving them information that would help criminals get a lot of data, Robinhood described the incident. The company discovered on November 3 as follows:
“An unauthorized person has deceived a customer support employee over the phone. and make it accessible to some customer support systems. We understand that this unauthorized person has obtained a list of email addresses for approximately 5 million people and the full names of approximately two million other groups.”
According to Robinhood, the hackers did not obtain sensitive personal information such as social security numbers, or banking information for most of the affected customers. But the company added that about 310 customers were provided by the hackers with additional information such as their birthdays and home addresses, while 10 of them “had more account details to be disclosed.”
Robinhood added that hackers contacted them to demand payments. which is an attempt to blackmail But the company has contacted law enforcement.
However, the company did not say what other steps were taken to deal with the incident. But it is recommended that customers who want to secure their accounts see the menu. “Account Security” in the app
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