DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks
A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut’s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut customers. DriveWealth and Revolut emailed affected customers on Thursday.
DriveWealth said an unauthorised party got into its network on 4 and 5 September. The access was the result of a social engineering campaign run by unknown third parties, it wrote. The Irish Independent reported on Thursday that the breach reached Revolut customers in Ireland.
“This security incident involved unauthorized access to historic personal data we held about you when you directly contracted with us in the past,” DriveWealth wrote.
What was taken
The data may include names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses and employment details, DriveWealth said. It also covers country of citizenship, age, gender and a partial DriveWealth account number. The attackers did not get passwords or payment details such as card or bank account numbers, the broker said....
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