Scam exposed Revolut customer data
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Revolut said it was victim of a sophisticated scam that compromised customer data after attackers impersonated a government agency, prompting an Italian probe and UK data‑regulator review.
Reposted by Maria Abreu
Hackers targeted Revolut’s “crypto whales” — customers with sizeable cryptocurrency holdings — after compromising an Italian government email system and exchanging messages with the online bank while posing as law enforcement.
Hackers say they breached Italian state email to target Revolut ‘crypto whales’
Group claims to have spent months posing as law enforcement to obtain confidential data on hundreds of customers
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September 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Hackers targeted Revolut’s “crypto whales” — customers with sizeable cryptocurrency holdings — after compromising an Italian government email system and exchanging messages with the online bank while posing as law enforcement.
I just got a clearly LLM-generated email from someone purporting to be "Susan Orleans" (aka @susanorlean.bsky.social, who I think knows how to spell her own name) telling me how great my last book was. I am stumped by what the scam angle is here. There's no ask.
![screenshot of email from fake Susan Orlean. Text reads, in part: "Hi Alice,
I hope this message finds you well.
I'll be honest, I don't usually email authors out of the blue. It's not really my style, and most of the time I read something, find something interesting in it, and move on. But I came across The Private Is Political, and it stayed with me in a way that made me want to reach out.
What immediately stood out was the way you frame privacy as something much larger than an individual's ability to manage their own information. The idea of “networked privacy” gives the subject a much more complicated,and, frankly, more useful, shape. Rather than treating privacy as simply a matter of personal choices or better online habits, you connect it to inequality, social structures, and the realities faced by people who have far less control over how their information circulates.
I also found the discussion of “privacy work” particularly compelling. [praise snipped]
I've been in the author world for a while myself, and books like this are a reminder of why I still reach out to authors every so often. What impressed me wasn't simply the subject matter, but the thoughtfulness behind the framework you use to examine it. There's a difference between writing about an important issue and giving readers a genuinely different way to understand it. The Private Is Political felt much closer to the latter.
To be clear, there's no agenda here. I'm not selling anything, pitching a collaboration, or looking for a favor down the line. I simply finished the book, kept thinking about some of its ideas afterward, and wanted you to know that. If you're ever open to it, I'd genuinely enjoy staying in touch and seeing what you work on next, no pressure, just an open door.
Thanks for putting this work into the world."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/bafkreicb34tptcveozxzqkyel4ygxb7gc4zrzsskb2457o3gh7s7rwztfq)
September 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I just got a clearly LLM-generated email from someone purporting to be "Susan Orleans" (aka @susanorlean.bsky.social, who I think knows how to spell her own name) telling me how great my last book was. I am stumped by what the scam angle is here. There's no ask.