Thousands affected by cyber attack on Revolut

BANKING app Revolut has confirmed it has been the subject of a cyber attack, leaving thousands of customers’ personal information exposed.

The cyber attack targeting the app, which has almost two million Irish customers, occurred earlier this month, affecting between 30,000 and 50,000 customers globally.

The incident occurred late on September 11 and Revolut isolated the attack by 2am the next morning.

Details of the data breach were published by the State Data Protection Inspectorate in Lithuania this week. It said access to the Revolut database was breached through social engineering.

The breach led to the data of 50,150 customers around the world being compromised, though no passwords or card PINs were accessible.

In a statement, Revolut said: ‘Revolut recently experienced a highly targeted cyber attack. This resulted in an unauthorised third party obtaining access to the details of a small percentage (0.16%) of our customers for a short period of time.

‘We immediately identified and isolated the attack to effectively limit its impact and have contacted those customers affected.’

It also said that ‘customers who have not received an email have not been impacted’, adding: ‘To be clear, no funds have been accessed or stolen. Our customers’ money is safe – as it has always been. All customers can continue to use their cards and accounts as normal.’

This breach disclosure notes that the hackers could have accessed the names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers and partial card payment details of affected users.