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Hollard Insurance Group

bd_1f8ada6890f7a371 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Sep 7, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Hollard Insurance Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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: 2026-09-07

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

hollard.co.za zoominfo.com/c/the-hollard-insurance-company-ltd/56019572 Hollard is South Africa's largest independent, privately-owned insurance group, founded in 1980 by the Enthoven family, HQ'd in Johannesburg, 4,000+ employees, 6M+ policyholders. Ownership: Enthoven family 57%, B-BBEE group Bushwillow 20%, Tokio Marine ~22.5% (2018, ~$327M); GCR AA(za). Operates in 18 countries on 4 continents via 100+ partnership ventures: Hollard Insure (corporate/broker), Hollard Life Solutions (mass market, prepaid "starter packs" sold like airtime), Hollard International (8 African countries + Philippines). Landmark deals: CommInsure Australia A$625M (2022 — top-5 insurer there, 15-year exclusive bancassurance deal with Commonwealth Bank), and in 2025 Global Alliance Seguros (Mozambique) + Absa Life Botswana. Innovations: HUGinsure (world's first social-impact insurer), insurtech bets (Naked, dotsure).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2026

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

thegentlemen

According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.

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