{"id":73090,"date":"2023-01-26T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=73090"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:09:45","slug":"robinhoods-twitter-account-hacked-to-promote-a-scam-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/robinhoods-twitter-account-hacked-to-promote-a-scam-token\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood\u2019s Twitter account hacked to promote a scam token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals hacked the Robinhood online broker&#8217;s Twitter account to promote a fraudulent RBH token on the BNB Chain. The damage did not exceed $8,000, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/205563\/robinhoods-twitter-hacked-users-tricked-into-buying-fraudulent-crypto-project\"> The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The token could be purchased at $0.0005. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geckoterminal.com\/bsc\/pools\/0x1f88f4c341365bf67a96f4f01362eafc35e9de1e?utm_source=coingecko&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=searchresults\">GeckoTerminal<\/a>, its market price soon jumped to $0.003821.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe are aware of unauthorized posts from Robinhood profiles on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, which were removed within minutes. We believe the source of the incident was a third-party vendor\u201d,<\/em> \u2014 Robinhood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re aware of the unauthorized posts from Robinhood Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook profiles, which were all removed within minutes. At this time, based on our ongoing investigation, we believe the source of the incident was via a third party vendor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobinhoodApp\/status\/1618349824734277632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Users flagged Binance-linked transactions by the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The platform\u2019s chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, said the account had been locked by security personnel for further investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our security team also noticed that and have locked the account pending further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CZ \ud83d\udd36 Binance (@cz_binance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1618311721080475648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In December, hackers<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-compromise-kevin-olearys-twitter-account-in-bitcoin-giveaway-scam\"> hacked<\/a> Kevin O\u2019Leary\u2019s Twitter account to run a Bitcoin giveaway scam.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown individuals hacked the Robinhood online broker&#8217;s Twitter account to promote a fraudulent RBH token on the BNB Chain. The damage did not exceed $8,000, according to The Block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1234,40],"class_list":["post-73090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-robinhood","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"43","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73092,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090\/revisions\/73092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}