{"id":624409,"date":"2026-09-14T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:42:10","slug":"revolut-blames-sophisticated-impersonation-scam-for-customer-data-breach-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624409\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolut blames \u2018sophisticated impersonation scam\u2019 for customer data breach \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revolut\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revolut\">Revolut<\/a> said a \u201csophisticated external impersonation scam\u201d was behind a data breach that involved the company releasing sensitive information about its customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokesman for the company said a \u201climited number\u201d of individuals were impacted by the breach and these customers have been contacted directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\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 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cUpon detection, we immediately blocked the address and alerted the relevant government agency as well as enforcement agencies, data protection and financial regulators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He added that Revolut\u2019s systems and customer funds were unaffected by the breach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Details of the data breach were first reported by news website TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It reported that data shared with the third party as part of the breach included customers\u2019 identity and contact details, their dates of birth, postal and email addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TechCrunch\u2019s report added that a notification emailed to impacted customers said personal identity documents, such as passports and driving licences, were also shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/27\/revolut-to-give-irish-users-access-to-private-market-investment-funds\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Revolut to give Irish users access to private market investment fundsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The email to customers also said verification selfies account statements and transaction histories may have been shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fast-growing Revolut has more than 80 million customers globally. The London-based company has amassed a large number of users in Ireland, with a reported 3.4 million customers in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revolut recently disclosed its lending service in Ireland had surpassed \u20ac1 billion, with the bank providing credit across 300,000 facilities, four years after launching Irish services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The company, which was valued at $115 billion (\u20ac99 billion) in July, has made limited inroads outside Europe. Last year, it announced plans to expand its services in the US market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It has committed to invest $500 million in the US between three to five years. In September, Revolut secured conditional approval to operate as a national bank in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revolut said a \u201csophisticated external impersonation scam\u201d was behind a data breach that involved the company releasing sensitive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,17631,61,60,8581],"class_list":["post-624409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-data-privacy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-revolut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}