{"id":746859,"date":"2026-09-13T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:11:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:11:12","slug":"revolut-says-customer-data-exposed-through-fake-government-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revolut-says-customer-data-exposed-through-fake-government-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolut says customer data exposed through fake government email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M2D17VM4EG7ZBFYRBDRS7SSC\/revolut-data-disclosure.png\" alt=\"Revolut says customer data exposed through fake government email\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Passports, selfies and financial transaction histories of some customers were revealed to a fraudster using a government agency domain.<\/p>\n<p>Financial tech and banking company Revolut released sensitive customer data, including copies of passports, verification selfies and full transaction histories after receiving a fraudulent request that seemed to be from a government agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Requests for customer information sent from a legitimate government agency email domain passed Revolut\u2019s authentication checks, according to International Cyber Digest <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/intcyberdigest\/status\/2098704229913202728?s=46&amp;t=H3mqKGOatz3BS5Loh_-Y6g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posting<\/a> on X. Revolut later concluded they were not authentic, and customers whose information was compromised were notified on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A company spokesperson told Cointelegraph on Saturday that \u201cRevolut recently identified a sophisticated external impersonation scam where an unauthorised third party utilised a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent requests for information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Financial tech and banking company Revolut released sensitive customer data, including copies of passports, verification selfies and full transaction histories after receiving a fraudulent request that seemed to be from a government agency.&nbsp; Requests for customer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}