THELOGICALINDIAN - The crypto and banal trading app saw its users abstracts baseborn aftermost anniversary
Trading app Robinhood reported today that a aegis aperture resulted in attackers accepting admission to user information.
Millions of Users Affected
According to Robinhood, attackers acquired the email addresses of 5 actor users and the abounding names of addition 2 actor people.
Furthermore, 310 bodies had added advice stolen, including their name, date of birth, and zip code. 10 of those barter had “more all-encompassing annual capacity revealed.” The aggregation says that no banking information—such as SSNs, coffer annual numbers, or debit agenda numbers—was stolen. Furthermore, no barter accomplished banking loss.
Robinhood added that the antagonist amenable accepted an extortion acquittal to anticipate the advice from leaking, but did not say whether it complied with those demands. The aggregation says that it abreast acknowledged authorities of the adventure and that aegis close Mandiant is accustomed out an investigation. Robinhood letters that the adventure happened backward during the black of Wednesday, Nov. 3 but did not accord an exact time.
Other Companies Have Been Targeted
Various added crypto companies accept apparent beneath astringent abstracts leaks afterward the aforementioned pattern. In backward October, CoinMarketCap leaked the email addresses of about 3 actor users.
Other companies that accept suffered agnate attacks accommodate Celsius, Ledger, and BitMEX. Though those companies did not necessarily acknowledge the admeasurement of anniversary attack, anniversary aggregation has almost 1 to 3 actor users, authoritative those attacks abate by default.
The beyond calibration of this week’s advance is acceptable due to Robinhood’s analogously boilerplate appeal. Robinhood is not alone a cryptocurrency app, but rather a retail banal trading app with accessory crypto features.
Robinhood has about 31 actor users, acceptation that the advance afflicted aloof beneath a division of its user base.
Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $100 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
