SAN FRANCISCO: Robinhood on Nov 8 warned users that a hacker talked their way past the stock-trading app’s defenses, stealing millions of user email addresses and more.
The culprit called customer support and, pretending to be an authorised party, duped a Robinhood employee into providing access to the customer support computer system, a hacker technique referred to as “social engineering”, the company said in a blog post.
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