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Trading platform Robinhood has revealed that the personal information of more than seven million customers has been accessed during a data breach. An unauthorized third-party publicly engineered a customer support staff over the phone and gained access to some of the stock-trading app’s customer support systems last week.
“At this time, we understand that the unauthorized party accessed a list of email addresses of approximately five million people and full names for a separate group of approximately two million people,” the company said in a statement late Monday. The attack has been brought under control and according to the company, no public security number, bank account number or debit card number was exposed and no financial loss has been caused to any customer as a result of the incident.
Users’ personal information including birth date and zip code leaked
Trading Platform Disclosed, We also believe that for a more limited number of people in total – about 310 extra personal information including name, birth date and zip code, with a subset of approximately 10 customers exposed along with more detailed account information Had happened.
The hackers sought the extortion and, according to Robinhood, it notified law enforcement and continued to investigate the incident with the help of cybersecurity firm Mandient.
The incident of the breach took place on the late night of November 3
Caleb Sima, Robinhood’s Chief Security Officer, said, “As a Safety First company, we are responsible for our customers by being transparent and acting with integrity. Sima said, after a better review, it is now the right thing to report this incident to the entire Robinhood community.
This incident of breach took place on the late night of November 3. In a blog post on Monday afternoon, Robinhood said that an unauthorized third party “publicly engineered” a customer support staff over the phone on the evening of November 3 and gained access to the customer support system.
(Input- IANS)
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