Group Claiming Revolut Breach Demands 6,000 Monero, Says It Hunted Big Crypto Holders

Reggio Calabria prosecutors have opened a probe into a prefecture’s certified email account that allegedly served to obtain records on about 680 Revolut customers, whom the group says it picked for their crypto holdings.

Group claims Revolut breach, demands 6,000 Monero, says it targeted big holders

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Posted September 16, 2026 at 7:19 pm EST.

A group claiming responsibility for the Revolut customer data breach has asked for 6,000 XMR, worth about $3 million, within 24 hours, and says it will otherwise offer the records to other criminal groups, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. A countdown clock ran beside the demand, which went up on the group’s website Wednesday afternoon, Reuters reported, citing the FT. A Revolut spokesperson told Reuters the company has had no direct contact with the group and has received no demand from it directly.

Going by “iamnotavillain,” the group told the newspaper it found its roughly 680 targets by combing blockchain data for Revolut users with big crypto balances. “I rather not disclose my exact way of getting it, but it was via onchain analysis,” the group said, and called the people it went after “crypto whales.” Switzerland and France account for most of them, according to the group; the rest are spread across 31 other countries, among them the U.K., Germany and Spain. A person familiar with the matter put the number of affected customers at about 680, Reuters reported.