{"id":625315,"date":"2026-09-15T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625315\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:22:12","slug":"12-irish-revolut-customers-said-to-be-impacted-by-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625315\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Irish Revolut customers said to be impacted by breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech company Revolut is believed to have identified a group of about 680 customers that have been impacted by a recent data breach.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that 12 Irish customers of these 680 customers worldwide are affected.<\/p>\n<p>Revolut has contacted affected customers directly and is providing ongoing support through the normal channels.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged over the weekend that copies of some Revolut customers&#8217; passports and driving licences, along with their dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers, had been handed to criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Revolut has about 3.4 million customers in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Revolut 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,&#8221; a Revolut spokesperson said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon detection, we immediately blocked the address and alerted the relevant government agency as well as enforcement agencies, data protection, and financial regulators,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The fintech said it will provide further updates if there are any further developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fintech company Revolut is believed to have identified a group of about 680 customers that have been impacted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-625315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625315","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=625315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}