Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
The Robinhood Twitter account was hacked and used to promote a fraudulent crypto project. The hackers announced the launch of a new token called $RBH, which they say will be priced at $0.0005 on Binance Smart Chain. About 25 people purchased the fraudulent tokens for a total of just under $8,000 before the link was removed. Robinhood said in a blog post that the unauthorized content posted on Robinhood Twitter, Instagram and Facebook was removed within minutes, and the team believes the source of the incident was a third-party vendor. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: $ 8,000.
- chain
- bsc
- protocol
- Robinhood
- bug_class
- private-key
- date_occurred
- 2023-01-26
- loss_usd
- $8,000
- source_id
- sm:robinhood::2023-01-26