{"id":1024732,"date":"2026-07-30T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024732"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:32:37","slug":"robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-provides-update-on-x-account-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-provides-update-on-x-account-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev provides update on X account hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said on Tuesday that a hacker who posted fake content about a memecoin on his X account last week \u200cused \u2060social engineering \u2060to bypass security guardrails. <\/p>\n<p>The hack, which took place on July 23, was used to promote a token called &#8220;Vladhood&#8221; on Tenev&#8217;s account. The account was fully restored, \u2060and the \u200cpost was taken down later that day. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fraudster \u2060socially engineered X customer support to \u200bgain access, bypassing standard security \u200bfeatures like 2FA and login notifications&#8230;,&#8221; Tenev said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said on Tuesday that a hacker who posted fake content about a memecoin on his X account last week \u200cused \u2060social engineering \u2060to bypass security guardrails. The hack, which took place on July 23, was used to promote a token called &#8220;Vladhood&#8221; on Tenev&#8217;s account. The account was fully restored, \u2060and the \u200cpost was taken down later that day. &#8220;A fraudster \u2060socially engineered X customer support to \u200bgain access, bypassing standard security \u200bfeatures like 2FA and login notifications&#8230;,&#8221; Tenev said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024733,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024732\/revisions\/1024733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}