{"id":658398,"date":"2026-09-17T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/revolut-says-no-direct-contact-after-3-million-public-ransom-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:52:46","slug":"revolut-says-no-direct-contact-after-3-million-public-ransom-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/revolut-says-no-direct-contact-after-3-million-public-ransom-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolut says no direct contact after $3 million public ransom demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M2Q83QQQWRKSXT4SW5VX5T0H\/man-hacker-breaking-blockchain-2.jpg\" alt=\"Revolut says no direct contact after $3 million public ransom demand\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Revolut says it received no direct contact despite separate ransom demands for $3 million in Monero and 10,000 Bitcoin from competing breach claimants.<\/p>\n<p>Revolut said Thursday it had received no direct contact from those claiming responsibility for a customer data breach despite multiple public ransom demands.<\/p>\n<p>A group calling itself \u201cIAmNotAVillain\u201d publicly demanded 6,000 Monero (XMR), worth about $3 million, from Revolut within 24 hours, threatening to sell the customer records to other criminal groups, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d1f2c9bd-26ce-4e87-9da4-fe0238bd531d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevolut has not received any direct contact or demand from the individuals or group making these claims,\u201d a Revolut spokesperson told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/revolut-data-breach-monero-ransom-no-direct-contact\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolut says it received no direct contact despite separate ransom demands for $3 million in Monero and 10,000 Bitcoin from competing breach claimants. Revolut said Thursday it had received no direct contact from those claiming responsibility for a customer data breach despite multiple public ransom demands. A group calling itself \u201cIAmNotAVillain\u201d publicly demanded 6,000 Monero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}