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Two competing parties have separately claimed to have breached Revolut and posted public ransom demands. One seeks $3 million in Monero. The other demands 10,000 Bitcoin.
Revolut says neither claimant has established any direct contact. The competing-claimants structure is the central oddity. Extortion demands are typically paired with private communication to open a negotiating channel.
Here, both parties chose public channels, and Revolut says it has heard nothing directly from either, leaving both claims in a state where only the absence of contact has been disclosed.
From a digital-asset positioning lens, the two demands sit on opposite ends of the traceability spectrum. Monero is built around transaction opacity, obscuring transaction data by default.
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