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Hacker steals investment app Robinhood users’ details

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Robinhood on Monday 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 authorized 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. After stealing information from Robinhood, […]