Revolut handed sensitive customer data to scammers – media

The UK-based digital bank reportedly disclosed sensitive customer information after receiving requests from a government agency email domain London-based fintech company Revolut disclosed sensitive customer information to scammers after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a “legitimate government agency email domain,” according to media reports on Saturday.The exposed data included customers’ birth dates, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, as well as copies of passports and driver’s licenses, according to a notification Revolut sent to affected clients and cited by the online newspaper TechCrunch. The compromised data may also have included verification selfies, account statements, and transaction histories, according to the report.Revolut confirmed the breach to both TechCrunch and Reuters, saying a “limited” number of customers had been affected by a “sophisticated external impersonation scam where an unauthorized third party utilized a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent requests for information.” Co-founded by Russian-born entrepreneur Nik Storonsky in 2015, Revolut describes itself as the “world’s first truly global bank,” which provides ...