Fintech Revolut, which claims around 20 million customers, confirmed a hack that took place on September 10. “An unauthorized third party gained access to the details of a small percentage (0.16%) of our customers over a short period of time,” Revolut spokesperson Michael Bodansky told TechCrunch.
If the company does not specify the number of affected clients, the announced proportion amounts to approximately 32,000 clients but, according to the Bleeping Computer site, the fintech would have declared 50,150 victims -including approximately 20,000 present in the European economic area- with the ‘ Protection Inspection of Lithuanian State Data. Revolut has a banking license in this country.
The money was not stolen.
This same National Inspection listed the data potentially exposed by this attack:
- Emails
- Complete names
- postal addresses
- Telephone numbers
- Payment card details
- Account data
For its part, Revolut points out that the hackers did not steal the money deposited by customers and that the type of data stolen varies according to the victims.
The attack was revealed in the press last week without being formally confirmed by Revolut. For affected customers, the main risk now is hackers using the collected data to set up more tailored and therefore more convincing phishing scams.
Source: BFM TV
