Robinhood data breach: 5.0M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-03-03
In November 2021, the online trading platform Robinhood suffered a data breach after a customer service representative was socially engineered. The incident exposed over 5M customer email addresses and 2M customer names. Exposed data: email addresses. The breach dates from Nov 3, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 3, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Robinhood account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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