UK fintech Revolut reveals customer data breach
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British digital bank Revolut said Wednesday that an impersonation attack caused it to share customers' information with an "unauthorized third party" posing as a government to a source familiar with the matter, 680 Revolut customers across several European countries were affected by the said its systems and customer funds had been left "unaffected"."We have contacted the limited number of impacted individuals directly to inform them and provide support," it added in a said it "recently identified a sophisticated external impersonation scam where an unauthorised third party utilised a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent requests for information.""Upon detection, we immediately blocked the address and alerted the relevant government agency as well as enforcement agencies, data protection and financial regulators," the statement 's data protection regulator, the ICO, confirmed to AFP that it had "received a report" regarding the breach and was "assessing the information provided".According to The Financial Times, the hackers obtained involved addresses, verification photos, identity documents and information regarding bitcoin FT also said it had contacted the hackers claiming responsibility for the were said to have exchanged emails with the bank for several months under a false identity and allegedly targeted clients holding large volumes of crypto-assets, particularly in Switzerland and comes as Revolut is making inroads in the global banking sector following its creation in secured a long-awaited banking licence in its home market Britain in March, lifting restrictions on its ability to compete with established retail month Revolut secured conditional approval for a US banking licence, and on Tuesday it filed for a licence application in fintech reached a valuation of $115 billion in a secondary share sale in has been a leader in rolling out financial services via smartphones, initially focusing on allowing customers to easily exchange currencies and make has more than 80 million customers globally and is targeting 100 million customers in 100 its rapid growth has drawn criticism, in particular over its ability to comply with financial regulations aimed at combating fraud and money laundering.
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