Revolut data breach exposed info of 50,000 users

Revolut has been hit by a hacker attack that gave an unauthorized third party access to personal information of tens of thousands of clients.

Founded in 2015, Revolut is a financial technology company that has seen a rapid growth, now offering banking, money management, and investment services to customers all over the world.

The data security incident occurred a week ago, on Sept. 17, and has been described as "highly targeted."

A company spokesperson reported that an unauthorized party had access "for a short period of time" to details of only a 0.16% of its customers:

We immediately identified and isolated the attack to effectively limit its impact and have contacted those customers affected. Customers who have not received an email have not been impacted.

According to the breach disclosure to the State Data Protection Inspectorate in Lithuania, where Revolut has a banking license, 50,150 customers have been impacted.

The Lithuanian data protection agency notes that the likely exposed information includes:

The other day, Starbucks reported its customer database was breached online, with local media reporting that 200,000 individual's information was stolen.