Online stock trading platform Robinhood announced Monday a hacker obtained the email addresses or names of approximately seven million of its customers. Approximately 310 customers had their personal information exposed as part of the same breach.
The breach occurred Nov. 3, when a hacker “socially engineered a customer support employee by phone and obtained access to certain customer support systems,” Robinhood stated. The hacker then “obtained a list of email addresses for approximately five million people and full names for a different group of approximately two million people,” the company said.
