Online stock trading platform and broker-dealer Robinhood Financial moved closer to paying $20 million as part of a class-action settlement with thousands of customers whose accounts were allegedly accessed by unauthorized users.

From January 2020 through April 2022, Robinhood โ€œused substandard security practices and lacked security measures used by other broker-dealer online systems,โ€ according to a motion for settlement filed July 1 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. A California magistrate judge granted preliminary approval of the deal Tuesday, according to court documents.