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Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd

listed as Africa Insurance · Claimed by Lynx · listed 4 months ago

4m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMar 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lynx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Ethiopia
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Mar 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd is an insurance company headquartered in Sandton, South Africa. It employs between 100 and 249 people and reports annual revenue in the range of $10 million to $25 million. The company operates within the broader financial services sector.

Industry
Insurance
Address
Sandton, South Africa
Employees
100-249

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor against an insurance company, which likely holds sensitive financial and personal customer data (PII, policy records, financial records). Published data from a financial/insurance entity constitutes confirmed exfiltration of significant sensitive business data, warranting a high severity rating.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and nature of files disclosed are not quantified in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd is a company that operates in the Insurance industry. It employs 100to249 people and has 10Mto25M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • March 13, 2026Africa Insurance listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lynx

Lynx has been linked to 414 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lynx dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Africa Insurance is reported in Ethiopia.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means Africa Insurance appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lynx's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.