Was Namforce Life Insurance hit by ransomware?

Namforce Life Insurance was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Namibia), 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears 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 Namforce Life Insurance breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to Namforce Life Insurance. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Namforce Life Insurance Limited

listed as Namforce Life Insurance · Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 29, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Namibia
Sector: Financial
Listed on leak site: Nov 29, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Namforce Life Insurance Limited is a Namibian life insurance company licensed in 2017. Originally established to provide life, disability, and funeral insurance to Namibian armed forces members, it has since expanded to serve the broader public with comprehensive insurance solutions.

Industry: Life Insurance
Founded: 2017

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated financial services data including customer and employee personal information (PII at scale), financial documents, and accounting records from a licensed insurance provider.

The Spacebears group claims to have exfiltrated financial documents, accounting reports, backups, and customer and employee databases from Namforce. The group has published data as proof of the breach.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial documents
Accounting reports
System backups
Customer database
Employee personal information
Client personal information

What the group claims

Namforce Life Insurance Limited (Namforce) is a life insurance company. The company was granted its Long-Term License in 2017. The purpose and aim of Namforce is to provide financial services to clients in the life insurance sector.Namforce, born out of a noble mission, has undergone a significant expansion, now offering its services to the broader public. In the early 1990s, soon after Namibia's independence, the government recognized the importance of providing insurance coverage to the brave members of the Namibian armed forces. To address this need, a scheme was initiated to provide life, disability, and funeral insurance to these individuals.Originally administered by various insurance companies, the government later established Namforce as a dedicated life insurance company. Officially licensed by the regulator in 2017, Namforce has continuously evolved to meet the changing needs of its clientele. In line with its commitment to inclusivity and accessibility, Namforce has expanded its services beyond the armed forces, now extending its comprehensive insurance offerings to the public at large. With a steadfast dedication to providing reliable and tailored insurance solutions, Namforce remains a trusted partner for individuals seeking peace of mind and financial security.• Financial document, accounting reports, backup, customer database, personal information of employees and client https://www.namforce.com.na/

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 29, 2024Namforce Life Insurance listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Namforce Life Insurance is reported in Namibia, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means Namforce Life 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 Spacebears'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.