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Hackers demand 10,000 Bitcoin from Revolut following data breach

DataBreaches.net · · International · Data Breaches

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... Source

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