Hackers claiming responsibility for a data breach at Revolut have demanded $3 million in Monero and threatened to sell sensitive information belonging to hundreds of customers, according to reports, although the digital bank said it has received no direct ransom demand.

The group, calling itself ‘iamnotavillain,’ reportedly gave Revolut 24 hours to pay 6,000 Monero tokens, worth about $3 million, or it would sell the stolen information to other criminal groups. The ultimatum was posted online alongside a countdown, according to the Financial Times.

Every Monero transaction generates a random, one-time address so outsiders cannot link payments to a specific user’s public wallet.

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The breach is understood to have affected about 680 customers, while Revolut’s core infrastructure, databases and customer accounts were not hacked, according to a source familiar with the matter. The company has said sensitive customer information was disclosed to an unauthorized third party after attackers submitted fraudulent requests using a legitimate government agency email domain.

The stolen information reportedly includes identity documents and other sensitive customer records of at least 680 Revolut customers. The hackers claim they chose their targets by using blockchain analysis to identify Revolut accounts with significant cyrpto holdings.

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Revolut said it has not had direct contact with the alleged attackers and has not received a ransom demand, adding another layer of uncertainty to the extortion claims.

The incident highlights a growing cybersecurity risk for financial and crypto platforms where attackers may not need to penetrate core banking systems if social-engineering attacks can be used to obtain sensitive customer data from trusted channels.

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