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Revolut will pay to replace identity documents for the 680 customers whose data it sent to a hijacked Italian government email address. The bank has not put a price on the pledge, and it disagrees with Italy's interior minister over whose check let the request through.
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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Revolut answered fraudulent information requests sent from a real government email account for months. A group calling itself iamnotavillain now wants about $3 million in Monero for the roughly 680 customer files.
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A hacker used a government employee's infostealer-compromised mailbox to send fraudulent requests to Revolut's Lithuanian subsidiary for about five months, and roughly 680 customers' passports and financial data went out.
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Revolut says its own systems were not breached; the fraudulent European Investigation Orders arrived from an authentic pec.interno.it mailbox, and the actor behind them claims six months inside Italian law-enforcement systems.
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