Robinhood Discloses Security Breach and Extortion Attempt

Robinhood Markets disclosed a information breach connected Monday affecting millions of customers, and said that the infiltrator had demanded an “extortion payment.” Most of the radical affected look to person had lone their email addresses revealed, but a constricted fig had important idiosyncratic accusation stolen.

The online broker said that whoever committed the breach “socially engineered a lawsuit enactment worker by telephone and obtained entree to definite lawsuit enactment systems.” Social engineering successful this lawsuit implies that the...