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Popular Life Insurance

bd_14343c9ef00fd988 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Nov 14, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Popular Life Insurance

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Sarcoma on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2024-11-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Popular Life Insurance Popular Life Insurance Co. Ltd. established by a group of local enthusiastic entrepreneur started its operation in September 26, 2000. Since inception, Popular Life set before itself a high standard of all round performance coextensive with professional soundness and proficiency. It soon made a mark in the life insurance arena by not only being the leader among the private sector indigenous companies, but by undertaking and successfully implementing innovative and welfare oriented life insurance schemes. But more importantly, in fulfilment of the avowed commitment towards social development, Popular Life introduced micro-life insurance-cum-savings products specially suited to the needs and pockets of poor people of the country who constitute more than 80% of the people of Bangladesh. Micro Individual Life Al-Amin Bima Ekok Bima Janapriya Bima Islami Bima Takaful Islami DPS Al-Barakah Islami Bima (Ekok) Al-Barakah Islami DPS Janapriya Ekok Bima Popular DPS IDPS Ekok Bima Al-Amin Ekok Bima Ordinary Life Popular Life offers a wide variety of ordinary life product/plans ranging from the most common endowment type to more modern and sophisticated plans like payments scheme policies (biennial/three/four/five payments), pension plan, Hajj Bima, education stipend plans,chield protection.Geo: Bangladesh - Leak size: 36 GB Archive - Contains: Files,SQL

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Nov 14, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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  • victim claim
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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-07-09

sarcoma

According to ransomware.live, Sarcoma is a ransomware group that debuted in October 2024, immediately ranking among the top three most active groups globally and surpassing 116 documented victims by mid-2025, targeting mid-market companies across manufacturing, retail, healthcare, legal, and business services with roughly 50% of victims in the United States.

141 victims claimed globally141 tracked hereFull profile →