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Rhonda Montgomery lost £17,000 after fraudsters posing as Revolut staff used her real account details — gleaned from a prior data breach — to convince her to move funds to a fraud-controlled "temporary account." She later flew to England to confront the suspect in person. Revolut refunded £9,000 after BBC intervention.

UK consumers reported 34,000+ impersonation scams in 2023, totalling ~£148m in losses.

Per a court record reviewed by 404 Media, Proton Mail handed Swiss authorities payment data associated with a "Stop Cop City" email account. Swiss authorities passed it to the FBI, which used it to identify the individual behind the account. The data handed over was payment metadata, not message content — Proton's end-to-end encryption was not broken.

More than 60 protesters had charges dropped after the operation.

Proton-commissioned survey of 3,000 people across the UK, Germany and France. 73% say their society is "far too dependent" on US tech; 83% of those are concerned. 66% are motivated by "security against hacking and fraud." 70% of British respondents rate that as extremely important. Aura Salla MEP is quoted: "The EU runs on Microsoft — the US could turn us off inside one hour."

Proton signups rose nearly 80% in the Nordics after Trump's renewed Greenland claims.

During a six-year relationship, Ashley Southgate installed cameras in every room of Emma Davey's home, monitored her communications, and sent pornographic images of her to her parents to humiliate them. After escaping, Emma recorded his ongoing abusive texts and emails, which contributed to his conviction for coercive or controlling behaviour at Maidstone Crown Court. She has since trained as a counsellor and built MyNARA, an app helping people in coercive relationships safely store evidence.

The Office for National Statistics recorded 49,557 coercive-control offences in the year to March 2025 — and that figure is widely accepted as a significant underestimate.

Scammers hacked Alan Steven's email, cloned genuine supplier invoices and changed only the bank account number at the end. He paid a building contractor £12,000 and a grain merchant £16,000 before a real supplier chased him for payment and the fraud surfaced. The £16k loss was, in his words, "a year's wage."

BEC has gone from 1% of all email-borne attacks in 2022 to 18.6% in 2025. The single fastest-growing category of email attack on both businesses and individuals.

2.09 million recorded cases. A 3% increase on the prior year. UK Finance's own data, considered the authoritative industry source.

A 17% spike. Citizens and visitors alike have devices forensically imaged with little legal recourse. Border-search of devices is now routine, not exceptional.

Recorded coercive or controlling behaviour offences hit 49,557 in the year to March 2025 — widely accepted as a significant underestimate. The criminal offence has existed since 2015 and prosecutions are climbing each year.

Capital is moving in this category. The dominant clients are not the only buyers — adjacent and privacy-led players are scaling.