Robinhood confirmed that a number of of its social media accounts have been breached earlier as we speak in an announcement emailed to CryptoSlate on Jan. 25.
An organization consultant mentioned:
We’re conscious of the unauthorized posts from Robinhood Twitter, Instagram, and Fb profiles, which have been all eliminated inside minutes. Right now, primarily based on our ongoing investigation, we imagine the supply of the incident was through a 3rd occasion vendor.
The corporate didn’t state which vendor might have been accountable.
The unauthorized breach noticed Robinhood’s official account promote a Binance Good Chain-based token referred to as $RBH. Although that token exists on-chain, it has no official relationship with Robinhood and seems to exist solely to be used in as we speak’s rip-off.
Though $RBH has no worth itself, the handle that seems to be chargeable for the rip-off holds roughly 25.3 BNB ($7,750). Provided that the account was created earlier as we speak, it’s probably that this quantity was earned totally by way of the Robinhood rip-off.
$RBH’s token contract signifies that simply 61 addresses maintain the fraudulent token.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao commented on the incident. He mentioned that Binance has locked an account related to the rip-off and is investigating the matter.
Robinhood permits customers to commerce and use cryptocurrency — together with by way of its recently-launched self-custody pockets — however has not issued any crypto token of its personal.
