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CNPS Cameroun

bd_c18141b6c4b50b1f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 29, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for CNPS Cameroun

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears 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: Public SectorDiscovered: 2024-09-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

The National Social Security Fund (acronym CNPS) is a Cameroonian public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy.It is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and administered by a board of directors composed of representatives of workers, representatives of employers and representatives of public authorities.The CNPS was created on June 7, 1967. With decree no. 354/2018 of June 7, 2018, it became a Public Establishment of a special nature.It covers Family Benefits (PF), Old Age, Disability and Death Pensions (PVID), Professional Risks (RP).The CNPS: National Social Security Fund of Cameroon is a member of the Inter-African Conference on Social Security (CIPRES)The National Social Security Fund is responsible for ensuring, within the framework of the social protection policy of the Cameroonian government, the provision of benefits to insured workers and their beneficiaries. In this capacity, it manages different branches of benefits distributed as follows:Family benefits : family allowances, maternity leave coverage , pregnancy-related medical expenses, etc.;Old-age, disability and death benefits: old-age pension or allowance, survivor's pension or allowance, funeral expenses, etc.;Work accident and occupational disease benefits : coverage of medical expenses (after emergency assistance), and prosthesis costs, etc.;Health and social action services: schools, hospitals, social centers.To accomplish its mission, the CNPS of Cameroon collects employee and employer contributions which constitute the bulk of its resources.The unemployed, employees in the informal sector and self-employment are therefore excluded. Only workers declared to the CNPS, who receive a salary in relation to their actual period of activity, can claim the benefits provided by this organization.The CNPS has:thirty-eight social welfare centers,a ho

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jul 29, 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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The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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