Samwumed
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Full breach record for Samwumed →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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samwumed.org zoominfo.com/c/samwumed/346685548 SAMWUMED (founded 1952, Cape Town) is a closed, self-administered medical aid scheme serving South African municipal workers — roughly 35,000 members and 73,000 covered lives. It collects about R1.9 billion/year in contributions, kept reserves over R1.3 billion and posted a R14.3 million surplus in 2024 (solvency 68% vs the 25% legal minimum). Plans are income-banded and cheap (from ~R750/month with a 60% employer subsidy), covering hospitals, doctors, medication, dentistry and optics. Led by Principal Officer Francina Mosoeu with a union-appointed board, it administers benefits with Medscheme across a network of private hospital groups. Key problems right now: membership shrinking ~15%/year as young people leave, and an ongoing court battle with the Melomed hospital group over contract exclusions — plus the long-term threat of national health insurance reform.
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Sep 29, 2026
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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.