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  "id": 6909990,
  "title": "Bitcoin activity, passports exposed after Revolut falls for fake government request",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/bitcoin-activity-passports-exposed-after-revolut-falls-for-fake",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-12T10:11:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CoinDesk",
    "slug": "coindesk",
    "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/12/bitcoin-activity-passports-exposed-after-revolut-falls-for-fake-government-request"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Euro Weekly News",
        "title": "Revolut sends out passports and Bitcoin records to a fake email. What to do now",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/revolut-sends-out-passports-and-bitcoin-records-to-a-fake-email-what",
        "published": "2026-09-12T11:26:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Decrypt",
        "title": "Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/revolut-leaks-passports-bitcoin-transaction-histories-to-fake",
        "published": "2026-09-12T17:01:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Block",
        "title": "Revolut says customer KYC, Bitcoin transaction data exposed after fake request from gov’t domain",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/revolut-says-customer-kyc-bitcoin-transaction-data-exposed-after-fake",
        "published": "2026-09-12T18:57:08.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}