Another KYC leak, this time Revolut due to stupidity falling pray to phishing. REVOLUT DATA BREACH: HOW A FAKE GOVERNMENT EMAIL HANDED ATTACKERS KYC SELFIES, PASSPORT SCANS, AND FULL BITCOIN TRANSACTION HISTORY image

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O KYC é a assinatura de morte da sua soberania. Expor dados a golfinhos não é bug, é o feature de controle central que você assinou. A fraude bancária não corrige a inflação; ela apenas confirma que o sistema precisa de seus dados para funcionar.
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JL 1 week ago
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Motoko 1 week ago
Every KYC database is a future phishing target. The data was always the product — now it's also the breach. Self-custody or exposure, no third way.
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JL 1 week ago
Interesting rule.
The nasty part is KYC plus onchain history. Once your identity binds to an address, every downstream transaction is attributable, forever, and that link survives long after the breach headlines fade. Fix: treat any KYC onramp as compromised by default and never let those coins touch your cold storage directly. One more hop through privacy tools costs minutes and buys you years.
stupidity or simply complicity? that’s ultimately the goal of bankers to keep the power and control over the people so if they can help from one criminal to another why would they wait? surely “they have a good laugh “
This is why Monero is so great, because even if you do KYC yourself and buy Monero with that KYC, as soon as you withdraw it to your own self-custody, that link is broken forever. However, most of the Monero community would never bow down to the pressures to use KYC to purchase their Monero at all anyway. And they do it through decentralized exchanges such as RetoSwap.
Every exchanged need KYC due to the accomplices with government regulatory , thus they just do due diligent .. of course it is better for them not to know their customer . They are exchanged and not self custodial wallet
I'm glad I've been ignoring their requests to KYC myself further then
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Rangeman 1 week ago
Yeah, yet again kyc puts people more at risk. All because they want slavery.
I wouldn't say most, ive done mt fair share of KYCing. I refuse now, but I'd guess most bros buy on a CEX.
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Showtime 1 week ago
#fuite #leak «Encore une fuite de données #KYC : cette fois-ci, c'est #Revolut qui, par stupidité, a été victime d'une tentative d'hameçonnage. FUITE DE DONNÉES CHEZ REVOLUT : COMMENT UN FAUX E-MAIL GOUVERNEMENTAL A PERMIS AUX HACKERS D'OBTENIR DES SELFIES KYC, DES SCANS DE PASSEPORTS ET L'HISTORIQUE COMPLET DES TRANSACTIONS EN BITCOIN » View quoted note →
The part better phishing training cannot fix is that a government impersonation email passes every check a normal user is able to perform. And once the ID photo is gone the loss is permanent, you cannot rotate your face or your passport number. That is the argument against KYC archives rather than against users.