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Breaking: Robinhood Twitter Likely Hacked

Breaking: Robinhood Twitter Likely Hacked

By 247patrick

Published January 25, 2023, 12:55pm ET · 1 min read

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Around 5 PM UTC, the official Twitter account of the online broker Robinhood started posting and subsequently deleting tweets on the launch of a “new token” allegedly on the Binance chain. The posts are likely a scam and a result of a hack. Neither Robinhood, nor Binance issued a statement at the time of writing.

This article originally appeared on The Tokenist

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