Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, November 9th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Robin Hood has been compromised by some true brigands.

Netflix takes a page out of the

Tic-Toc playbook and a whole bunch of announces about new

D-Ram chips, new AMD chips, new custom VoiceSpot toolkits from

NVIDIA and Niantic doesn't want to get left behind in the

Metaverse race it arguably helped kick off. Here's what you miss today in the world

of tech. Robin Hood says an unauthorized party obtained a list of email addresses from around 5 million Robin Hood

users, also full names for another around 2 million users and more info more detailed info on

about 310 others quoting Tech Crunch. The company said in a blog post that a malicious

hacker had socially engineered a customer service

representative over the phone November 3rd to get access to customer support

systems that allowed the hacker to obtain customer names and email addresses

but also the additional full names dates of birth and

zip codes of around 310 customers. Robin Hood said that 10 customers had

quote more extensive account details revealed end quote. Robin Hood did not say what information specifically, though no Social Security numbers,

bank account numbers, or debit card numbers were exposed and caused no immediate financial loss to customers.

But it's precisely that kind of information

that malicious hackers can use

to facilitate further attacks against victims

like targeted fishing emails since names

and dates of birth can often be used

...