Revolut Customer Data Exposed in Email Scam
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The issue is taking on dimensions with the leak of Revolut data from its systems, without any prior attack on them. More specifically, this information was provided by Revolut itself, as it mistakenly believed that the email it received came from a valid government authority. Cybercriminals had maliciously exploited an official government domain […]
Revolut customer data exposed in email scam
On September 12, Revolut has disclosed confidential client data to a not authorized, fake requests submitted to them from an email account using an authentic government domain. The fraudulent requests using the government domain passed the verification checks of Revolut before the company was able to identify them. This leak of information is very sensitive, […]
Revolut Breach Shows How KYC Data Became a Honeypot for Scammers
Financial institutions ask customers for passports, facial images, addresses and information about their money to meet regulatory requirements. Stored together, however, the same records can become a ready-made targeting file for criminals—and obtaining it may not require breaking into a bank’s systems.London's trading industry is coming home!What Happened to Revolut The latest data security incident exposed the risk, when Revolut provided sensi…
There was no hack. There was no malware. There were no stolen credentials. Someone wrote emails from an email address that really belonged to a government agency and Revolut responded as if they were legitimate, because they were. The result: birth dates, postal addresses, emails, phones and identity documents — including passports and ID cards — continues reading »The Revolution news handed out customer passports to scammers who used the real d…
A compromised institutional box is useful to exfiltrate passports and financial information and get them into the wrong hands.The Revolut case tells one of the most difficult problems of contemporary security: the confidence on which we built our security processes The Revolut article, data exposed after a false government request: the limit of digital trust comes from Cyber Security 360.
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