Revolut confirms sensitive customer data breach, falling for fake government requests
- Revolut disclosed customer identities and financial records, including Bitcoin transaction histories, after acting on a fraudulent request that appeared to come from a government agency.
- The request arrived from an unauthorized email account using an official government agency's domain; it passed authentication checks, leading staff to believe the communication was genuine.
- Disclosed records included full names, dates of birth, occupations, identity documents, and Bitcoin transaction histories, though the company confirmed biometric facial telemetry data was not involved.
- On Friday, on-chain investigator ZachXBT shared a customer notice on Telegram, though the company has not confirmed the total number of affected users.
- While Revolut serves more than 80 million customers globally, the company maintains it will not ask users to share verification codes over the phone.
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Revolut confirmed that sensitive customer information was disclosed to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests from an e-mail area of a legitimate government agency, he told Reuters a spokesman for the British company Fintech. "As soon as we detected the incident, we blocked the address and ...
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Revolut confirms customer data breach after falling for fake government requests
Revolut confirmed that sensitive customer data was disclosed to an unauthorised third party after fraudulent requests were sent from a legitimate government agency domain, while the fintech said its systems and customer funds remained unaffected.
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