Revolut KYC breach escalates as hackers leak celebrity customer data, demand ransom
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-14
Threat actors targeting Revolut with information-demand emails have begun publishing sensitive customer data, including tennis player Shevchenko and Gamdom/Skinscom CEO Römer. They demand payment, threaten to release more data and details on how Revolut operates, and accuse the company of handing sensitive information to jurisdictions outside its authority and of negligent privacy practices — reviving scrutiny of how Revolut stored and treated KYC data.
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