Robinhood

Disclosed Nov 8, 20217,000,000 affectedConfirmed

Social engineering of support agent exposes 7 million Robinhood customers

An attacker socially engineered a Robinhood support employee by phone and obtained email addresses for about five million people and full names for about two million others, with more details for about 310 people, then demanded an extortion payment.

What is known

People affected	7,000,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Nov 8, 2021
Discovered	Nov 3, 2021
Happened	Nov 3, 2021
Attack	Phishing
Data exposed	EmailsNamesDates of birth
Sector	Finance · US
Status	Confirmed
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Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: Robinhood

SEC filingsec.gov

Robinhood Announces Data Security Incident (8-K Ex. 99.1)

Notices filed

TotalNov 8, 2021

Research7,000,000 people

Accounts in the dataMar 3, 2022

Have I Been Pwned5,003,937 people

History of this record

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source_url2026-09-25

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summary2026-09-25

In November 2021, the online trading platform Robinhood suffered a data breach after a customer service representative was socially engineered. The incident exposed over 5M customer email addresses and 2M customer names. to An attacker socially engineered a Robinhood support employee by phone and obtained email addresses for about five million people and full names for about two million others, with more details for about 310 people, then demanded an extortionby seedSource

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First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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