50,000 Revolut accounts have been compromised after suffering a cyber attack

In recent years, more and more people have become users of the Revolut neobank, the success has been such that the company is valued at approximately 33,000 million dollars.

These data do not go unnoticed, and now the company has denounced that it has suffered a cyberattack that has been done with the personal data of thousands of customers of this service.

No matter how prepared we think we are to face and detect a cyber attack, all the measures we use are few compared to the options and tricks that cyber criminals have to trick you.

It was a couple of weeks ago when an intrusion was detected in the Revolut financial service systems, but it was not a security flaw by the company, but rather the users of the affected accounts who gave access to the hackers.

Obviously this happened because they were tricked through phishing and social engineering techniques, as they apparently received an email from an account that was supposed to be Revolut warning of a cyber attack and that they had to follow the link they were provided to cancel their cards.

In this way, a virus was introduced with which the hackers accessed all the personal information and details of the victims’ accounts, such as their names, addresses, as well as the account data, although it is true that they have not accessed that of the victims. cards or your passwords so the money is safe.

As the Revolut team told elEconomista.es, the total number of affected customers amounts to 50,000 users, however, and luckily for some users, the company did not have the complete data in its system since they had not completed the KYC.

It is for this reason that there is a difference in data between what Revolut said when announcing the attack and the data offered by the Lithuanian State Inspectorate for Data Protection service who discovered that said service had been attacked.

Those for which they did not have all the data did not count as clients per se. For its part, Revolut wanted to clarify that “Customers who have not received an email have not been affected.Nor no funds have been accessed or theft has been carried out. Our clients’ money is safe, as it always has been. All customers can continue to use their cards and accounts as normal.”