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Revolut Gave Customer Passports, Bitcoin Records to Fraudulent Government Request

A third party using a real government email domain obtained identity documents and full bitcoin transaction records from Revolut after the fintech complied with a fraudulent government request. Customer passports and complete bitcoin transaction histories were handed over, the report said. The incident highlights data-security risks at crypto-friendly financial platforms handling sensitive customer information.

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The notable point is not the breach itself but the vector: a request that passed as legitimate because it arrived from a genuine government domain, meaning standard verification of the sender would not have flagged it. That shifts the exposure from platform security to the trust model underlying lawful-access requests, a channel every crypto-friendly platform with KYC data depends on. Whether Revolut tightens request verification, and whether other platforms disclose similar incidents, is the open question worth watching.

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