Disclosure context

About qilin

Qilin is a ransomware group that emerged in October 2022, operating with primarily financial motivations through targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors. The group appears to operate independently with limited public information available regarding their specific country of origin or affiliations to other ransomware families. Qilin employs double extortion tactics, typically exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload, though specific details about their initial access vectors and technical tools remain less documented in public security research. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with their 1645 known victims spanning multiple countries including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany, with particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Based on available intelligence reporting, Qilin remains an active threat as of recent assessments, continuing their ransomware operations without significant reported law enforcement disruption. The group has been linked to 1,858 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 8, 2022; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 15, 2026Generation Life listed by qilinon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Generation Life is reported in AU, a country with 155 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Generation Life

Claimed by qilin · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 15, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: qilin
Status: Data leaked
Country: AU
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Generation Life is an Australian financial services company specialising in investment bonds, tax-effective investment solutions, and investment-linked lifetime annuities (LifeIncome). The company offers products such as LifeBuilder, ChildBuilder, FuneralBond, and IncomeSeries, targeting retail investors, retirees, and financial advisers. It operates nationally across Australia, focusing on intergenerational wealth accumulation, retirement income, and estate planning.

Industry: Financial Services & Wealth Management

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Generation Life holds sensitive financial and personal data (PII, investment account details, retirement and estate planning records) for a large number of Australian retail investors and retirees. Data_published status confirms exfiltration and public release of regulated financial sector data, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

The Qilin ransomware group claims an attack on Generation Life with a disclosed status of data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. No specific details about encryption, data volume, or ransom demand were provided in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial account records
Investor personal information
Financial adviser data
Investment portfolio details
Retirement planning documents

What the group claims

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Qilin blog Sorting Created At Name Turner Supply Home Improvement & Hardware Retail Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Menzies Group Business Services Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Generation Life Insurance Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Australian College of Business Intelligence Education Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More NR Engineering Co., Ltd. Electricity, Oil & Gas Company url May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More B.Care Medical Center Healthcare Services Company url May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Foot Solutions Retail · Pennsylvania Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Common Part Groupings Industrial Machinery & Equipment Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 0 photos Learn More Cooperativa de Hospitales de Antioquia - COHAN Government Company url Zoom Info May 15, 2026 11 photos 7877165 files 1,500.00 GB Publicated Learn More + 4 more Schulte-Lindhorst GmbH & Co. Business Services Company url Zoom Info May 14, 2026 11 photos Learn More + 4 more Fab-Masters Industrial Machinery & Equipment Company url Zoom Info May 14, 2026 0 photos Learn More Bluize Software Company url Zo…

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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