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9 August 2022

Poor Cybersecurity Leads To $30M Fine For Robinhood Crypto!

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BankInfoSecurity.com reported that "Smartphone investing app Robinhood Markets will pay New York financial regulators $30 million to settle findings that its cryptocurrency trading division...
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BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “Smartphone investing app Robinhood Markets will pay New York financial regulators $30 million to settle findings that its cryptocurrency trading division had poor cybersecurity and failed to monitor for illegal transactions.” The August 2, 2022 article entitled “ New York Nabs $30M From Robinhood Crypto in Regulatory Fine” included these comments:

The New York Department of Financial Services says an audit conducted during most of 2019 of Robinhood Crypto revealed an understaffed cybersecurity operation that lacked adequate risk assessment procedures. The company's incident response plan lacked a process for notifying regulators and law enforcement in the event of an incident, the state reveals in the consent order ending the matter.

Regulators say the trading platform throughout 2020 also had a substantial backlog in evaluating suspicious transactions for potential fraud or money laundering. By late October, the pile of unevaluated transactions climbed up to nearly 4,400.

As part of the settlement agreement, Robinhood will engage an independent consultant for the next year and a half to monitor remediation efforts. Robinhood is publicly traded; it's most recent quarterly filing shows 15.9 million monthly active users and $19.7 billion in cryptocurrency assets under custody.

Hopefully other crypto currencies will get the message about Cybersecurity!

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ARTICLE
9 August 2022

Poor Cybersecurity Leads To $30M Fine For Robinhood Crypto!

United States Technology
Contributor
Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients’ priorities, objectives and challenges. We work hard to understand our clients’ issues and forge long-term relationships with them to help achieve successful outcomes and solve their legal issues through practical business advice and cutting-edge legal insight. Our clients view us as trusted business advisors because we understand that great legal service is only valuable if it is relevant, practical and beneficial to their businesses.
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