Was reichenau.at hit by ransomware?

reichenau.at was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Austria), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

safepay is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the reichenau.at breach?

safepay published data attributed to reichenau.at. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Marktgemeinde Reichenau an der Rax

listed as reichenau.at · Claimed by Safepay · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: Austria
Listed on leak site: Sep 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Marktgemeinde Reichenau an der Rax is a municipal government in Lower Austria responsible for public administration, infrastructure, utilities, and local services in the municipality of Reichenau an der Rax. The municipality also plays a significant cultural and tourism role, hosting the Festspiele Reichenau theatre festival and providing tourism information for visitors to the Rax mountain region.

Industry: Local Government Administration
Address: Hauptstraße 63, 2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Austria

Attack summary

Severity: low — Announcement only with no proof files, screenshots, or sample data published. No confirmation of data exfiltration or encryption impact. No operational disruption described. Post is incomplete ('link will be added soon').

The SafePay group claims to have accessed the municipality's systems and obtained data. The leak post states 'The link will be added soon' but provides no details of what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised, nor what operational impact occurred.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Municipal administration records
Potentially citizen records
Potentially financial administration data

What the group claims

The official website, reichenau.at, serves as the municipality's central digital information and service platform for residents, businesses, and visitors. The …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Marktgemeinde Reichenau an der Rax is a municipal government in Lower Austria, Austria, responsible for the administration and provision of public services in the municipality of Reichenau an der Rax.
The official website, reichenau.at, serves as the municipality's central digital information and service platform for residents, businesses, and visitors. The municipality is responsible for a broad range of local government functions, including public infrastructure, roads, water supply, wastewater management, waste-related services, municipal buildings, local administration, civil affairs, community facilities, and financial administration.
Reichenau an der Rax also has an important tourism and cultural role due to its location near the Rax mountain and its historic character. The municipality provides tourism information and supports local cultural activities, including the Festspiele Reichenau, a major regional theatre festival. The festival was reorganized in 2021 through the establishment of Theater Reichenau GmbH, involving the municipality and Niederösterreichische Kulturwirtschaft GmbH (NÖKU).
The link will be added soon.

Sources

Victim sitereichenau.at
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/reichenauat/

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 763 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 8, 2026reichenau.at listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 763 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, reichenau.at is reported in Austria, a country with 17 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means reichenau.at 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.at (Austria), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay'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.