• Possible data leak in Bunq

Good morning,

Since April 30 I have a Easy Savings Personal and Easy Savings Business bank account. What scared me is that I received on the first time ever 2 phishing text messages, first on my work phone and on 5:30 AM today on my private phone. I don't get any kind of phishing text messages or emails from Rabobank or SNS, so I suspect that there is a data leak somewhere since I disabled the visibility of my Bunq account for my phone contacts or that a employee of Bunq is doing shady practices by using account info, and because that I received them in a really short time since I have Bunq. I will try to dig deeper, I also have a small IT company and I am a ethical hacker so I will try to find their IP-address and other info, these are really unethical and nasty people that have to be stopped.

    @New-Teal-Hippopotamus-4137438682#293088 Have you disabled the alias settings in all of your sub-accounts? The setting "Recommendations" only hides your place recommendations.

      Actually wondering about this too - are the phishing messages being sent to random phone numbers (maybe sourced from a different data leak) in the hope they have a bunq account, or are they actually using numbers from a bunq leak?
      If the account visibility setting was the culprit, how would that work? One of my contacts being hacked or them actually being the scammer?

        @New-Taupe-Newt-1057704945#293100 My guess is the messages are mainly sent to random numbers. I also see people (on Reddit, X, etc.) that receive them, even though they're not a bunq customer.

        If you add a number to your address book and you open the bunq app, you can see if that number has a bunq account (if someone added their phone number as an alias in the settings of a sub-account). This way you can easily check if random numbers are connected to a bunq account.

        So it has nothing to do with one of your contacts being hacked, it's just a scammer checking random phone numbers.

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