Revolut allegedly fed customer information to hackers impersonating an Italian government agency for five months.

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Matthew Sellers reports: Revolut wasn’t hacked in the usual sense. No one broke into its servers or slipped malware past its defences. Someone asked for customer data, from what looked like a genuine government email address, and Revolut handed it over. That email is now behind one of the stranger data incidents to hit a...

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Dev Kundaliya reports: Revolut recently disclosed a security incident in which an unauthorised third party obtained sensitive customer information by sending fraudulent requests from the email domain of a legitimate government agency. People claiming responsibility for the incident have posted samples of the allegedly stolen information across several Telegram groups and the material appears to...

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The company unintentionally disclosed users’ information to a third party impersonating a government agency.

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