Revolut hit by data leak as attackers demand payment

The leak of identity documents and selfies is materially different from a password or email dump: that combination is the raw material for convincing account-takeover and impersonation attempts, and it lands on a fintech whose customers were verified precisely because it handles money. The daily-release threat shifts this from a one-off breach into an ongoing extortion dynamic, leaving the operator's response — and whether regulators treat it as a financial-sector incident — as the open questions. The absence of any comment so far leaves the scope of affected customers unknown.