Revolut Targeted by Multiple Ransomware Groups, Claims It Has Not Received Any Direct Contact

According to TechFlow, on September 17, Cointelegraph reported that following a customer data breach at Revolut, multiple hacker groups have publicly demanded ransoms. The organization claiming to be "IAmNotAVillain" demanded that Revolut pay 6,000 Monero (XMR, approximately $3 million) within 24 hours, threatening to sell customer data to other criminal groups if unpaid; another group calling itself "Revolut Smilik" had earlier demanded 10,000 Bitcoin (approximately $780 million).

In response, a Revolut spokesperson stated that the company had not received any direct contact or extortion demands from the aforementioned individuals or organizations. Meanwhile, Italy’s Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate has intervened in the investigation, Italian prosecutors are probing unauthorized access to government computer systems, and Italy's data protection authority has also ordered banks to urgently review their system access security.