Guardrisk
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Full breach record for Guardrisk →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
Post text · scraped from the leak site
guardrisk.co.za rocketreach.co/guardrisk-insurance-company-ltd-profile_b5a52494f9c62c8e Guardrisk is a South African specialist insurance group, founded in 1993 and widely recognized as the pioneer and market leader of cell captive insurance in Africa — a model that allows companies to run their own "branded" insurance business under Guardrisk's licensed infrastructure instead of building a full insurer themselves. Headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg, the group operates licensed insurers for life, non-life, and microinsurance, plus international cells in Mauritius and Gibraltar, and employs around 530 people. It has been wholly owned since 2013–14 by Momentum Group (JSE: MTN-listed MTM), which acquired it for R1.6 billion. For the financial year ended 30 June 2025, Guardrisk managed total assets of R68 billion and over 240 active cells, generating net revenue of ~R2 billion and pre-tax trading profit of ~R1 billion
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Sep 21, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
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Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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.
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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.