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If you used the investing app Robinhood, you could qualify for part of a $20 million class action settlement resolving allegations that the investment app's negligence led to personal information being leaked.  Robinhood's cybersecurity system "lacks simple and almost universal security measures used by other broker-dealer online systems, such as verifying changes in bank account links," according to a February 2021 complaint.

If your Robinhood account was accessed by unauthorized users between

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 12 November 2021:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 27,845 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Analysts identified 3,224 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Sality remains the top Malware Variant at 24,282 Observation
• Chaos Ransomware
• Fake Ecommerce and Black Friday
• Robinhood Hit (Again)
• CISA 22-01
• Ukraine & Gamaredon SSU Arrests
• Pakistan and Russia
• Cyber Attack US Federal Indictments
• FIN7 still Kicking Around

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Robinhood was known for “Stealing from the Rich, and Giving to the Poor.”  Not so in the last two years.  For the second time Robinhood Markets Inc. has been attacked by cyber criminals.  Robinhood said personal information of about 7 million people, which is approximately a third of its customers, was compromised in a data breach last week.  The bad actors then demanded a ransom payment.  The intruder obtained email addresses of about 5 million people as well as full names for a separate group