Capital de Tokens“It wasn’t a hack”: the trap of trusting an official email
Watch on YouTube There is a phrase that keeps coming up after incidents like these: “It wasn’t a hack”. And technically, that may be correct. There was not necessarily an intrusion into Revolut’s servers, malware breaking through defenses, or a master password published online. But using that phrase to reassure people is almost a linguistic trap…
There is a phrase that keeps coming up after incidents like these: “It wasn’t a hack”. And technically, that may be correct. There was not necessarily an intrusion into Revolut’s servers, malware breaking through defenses, or a master password published online. But using that phrase to reassure people is almost a linguistic trap. When a financial institution hands data over to an impostor, it hardly matters whether the thief came in through a broken window or someone opened the door because they were wearing a seemingly authentic uniform. From the affected person’s perspective, the information got out. And it got out through a particularly sensitive channel: official requests.
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