Nearly 2000 Robinhood accounts hacked

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by mlawson71, Oct 17, 2020.

  1. mlawson71

    mlawson71

    Nearly 2000 accounts of the trading app Robinhood have been hacked to an admission issued by them, downplaying the number as “limited”. The platform itself was not targeted directly.

    Personal e-mails of the app users have been compromised and hackers gained access to the accounts through those e-mails.

    Robinhood issued a statement:

    “We always respond to customers reporting fraudulent or suspicious activity and work as quickly as possible to complete investigations. The security of Robinhood customer accounts is a top priority and something we take very seriously,"

    The app also noted that users should enable two-factor authentication on their accounts and that when a customer notifies them of a otential breach on an account they restrict said account, investigate the unauthorized access, log the user out on all devices and request for a password reset.

    Further reports, however, also note that some of the breached accounts did have two-factor authentication.

    Robinhood has millions of users and compared to that 2000 accounts are, indeed, a limited number, but in on itself that is not an insignificant number at all.
     
  2. guru

    guru

  3. themickey

    themickey

    OP, gotta wakeup now. :)
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    Wakey wakey :)
     
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  4. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    THUS THE NAME ROBIN HOOD - LOL
     
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