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Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom
Revolut allegedly fed customer information to hackers impersonating an Italian government agency for five months.
Summary
Revolut allegedly fed customer information to hackers impersonating an Italian government agency for five months. Hackers are demanding a $3 million ransom from the British fintech giant Revolut after siphoning data from it through fake government requests for five months. Last week, the company notified potentially affected users that their personal information, passports, email addresses, phone numbers, and financial information were compromised in the data breach. To obtain the information, the hackers posed as an official government agency.
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