Hackers accessed thousands of phone numbers: Robinhood

SAN FRANCISCO: Trading platform Robinhood has revealed that several thousand entries in a list, obtained by hackers, contained phone numbers along with other text entries in a November 3 security breach incident.

The platform said it believes that the list did not contain Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, or debit card numbers and that there has been no financial loss to any customer as a result of the incident.

"We will continue making appropriate disclosures to affected people," the company said in a blogpost.

Earlier this month, Robinhood revealed that personal information of more than seven million customers had been accessed during a data breach. An unauthorised third-party socially engineered a customer support employee by phone and obtained access to certain customer support systems of the stock-trading app. Hackers demanded an extortion payment and according to Robinhood, it informed law enforcement and was continuing to investigate the incident with the help of cyber security firm Mandiant. (IANS)

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