Data breach · November 2021

Was I in the Robinhood breach?

Robinhood is an online trading platform. Its breach happened in November 2021 and exposed 5,003,937 accounts. It included email addresses. If you had an account there by November 2021, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.

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01

What happened?

In November 2021 a customer service agent at the company was tricked through social engineering, which led to a breach. Customer email addresses were exposed, and for a smaller group of customers their names were exposed too.

Organisation
Robinhood, an online trading platform (robinhood.com)
When it happened
November 2021
Added to monitored breach databases
3 March 2022
Accounts in the data
5,003,937
What was exposed
email addresses

The breach record cites a public report on techcrunch.com.

02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

Is my address in it?

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