{"id":2905,"date":"2026-02-23T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:35:31","slug":"revolut-confirms-ex-employee-threatened-to-leak-kyc-data-for-crypto-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"Revolut confirms ex-employee threatened to leak KYC data for crypto ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzhhYjUtMDUyZi03NDcxLTgwYmItY2NkODY2ODdiOWE4LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Revolut confirms ex-employee threatened to leak KYC data for crypto ransom\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A crypto trader said a former Revolut employee tried to extort him and contacted his relatives. Revolut confirmed an investigation and said no systems were breached.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crypto trader said a former Revolut employee tried to extort him and contacted his relatives. Revolut confirmed an investigation and said no systems were breached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}