Revolut Victim of Identity Usurpation, Compromised Customer Data
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The UK company suffered an identity usurpation this Wednesday, which allowed the hacker to access the information of some customers. It reacted by contacting the competent authorities and reassuring the affected customers.
Britain's digital bank Revolut said Wednesday that in an attack carried out by impersonators, customer information was passed on by a state authority to a third party that did not have permission to access it. A source from news agency AFP also revealed how many customers were affected by this cyber attack.
Group of hackers used email address with the domain of a government agency. In issue are the data of 680 customers. Revolut does not confirm if there are Portuguese.
The British neobank was the target of a sophisticated scam that allowed a third party to pretend to be a government agency to access the personal information of several hundred
"As soon as this activity was detected, we immediately blocked the address and alerted the government agency concerned, law enforcement, data protection authorities and financial regulators," said a spokesman for the bank. According to a source close to the file, 680 customers were affected in several European countries. "Customers' funds are not affected," the bank said, who said he had "contacted directly the limited number of people impacted.…
Potentially exposed data would include names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, identification documents, verification photographs, IBAN numbers, extracts and transaction history
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