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Warning after thousands of phone numbers are stolen by cyber crooks in Robinhood hack
THOUSANDS of phone numbers were stolen in a recent hack, according to a new report.
App-based investment platform Robinhood was recently hacked but phone numbers were not thought to have been stolen until now.
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According to Vice’s Motherboard, the breach involved more than email addresses and full names.
Originally it was thought that five million customer email addresses and two million full names were taken by hackers.
However, Motherboard claims to have obtained a copy of around 4,400 phone numbers also stolen during the hack.
Its source is said to have been a contact of the hackers.
Robinhood has since updated its blog with the bad news.
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The blog now states: “We’ve determined that several thousand entries in the list contain phone numbers, and the list also contains other text entries that we’re continuing to analyze.
“We continue to believe 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 customers as a result of the incident.
“We’ll continue making appropriate disclosures to affected people.”
The hack is said to have occurred when cyber criminals got hold of an internal tool that let them remove security features.
The hackers aren’t thought to have made any changes to customer accounts.
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