Was bladex.com hit by ransomware?

bladex.com was listed by the lockbit5 ransomware operation (Panama), 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 lockbit5 ransomware group?

lockbit5 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 bladex.com breach?

lockbit5 published data attributed to bladex.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex)

listed as bladex.com · Claimed by Lockbit5 · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lockbit5
Status: Data leaked
Country: Panama
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex) is a multinational trade finance bank headquartered in Panama City, Panama, originally established by the central banks of Latin American and Caribbean nations. The bank specializes in facilitating international trade transactions and providing financial solutions to corporations and financial institutions across Latin America and beyond. Bladex is publicly listed on the NYSE under the ticker BLX and maintains a presence across Latin America and the United States.

Industry: Trade Finance & International Banking
Address: Panama City, Panama
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1979

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Bladex is a publicly traded multinational bank handling international trade finance; a confirmed data publication by ransomware operators implies exposure of regulated financial data, banking records, corporate client PII, and potentially transaction-level data at scale — all qualifying as critical under financial sector sensitivity thresholds.

LockBit 5 claims to have attacked Bladex and has published data, indicating exfiltration of company data with disclosure already confirmed; no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial records
Trade finance transaction data
Corporate client information
Investor documentation
SEC filings and reports
Employee records
Internal banking operations data

What the group claims

Bladex, a multinational bank originally established by the central banks of Latin-American and Carib...

Sources

Victim sitebladex.com
Leak posthttp://lockbitapt67g6rwzjbcxnww5efpg4qok6vpfeth7wx3okj52ks4wtad.onion/post/3afc24512af0e66dcc0e4ca36ddfb290

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About lockbit5

Based on the provided data, LockBit5 appears to be a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in December 2025, representing what may be a new iteration or rebrand within the LockBit ransomware ecosystem, with primary financial motivations evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors. Given the LockBit naming convention and the timing of emergence, this group likely operates from Eastern Europe or Russia and may represent either a continuation of previous LockBit operations or a new affiliate group leveraging the established LockBit brand, though specific organizational details remain undocumented by major security agencies. While detailed attack methodologies have not been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, or major security researchers, the group's targeting pattern across 157 victims suggests a broad-spectrum approach focusing on technology, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation sectors primarily in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Due to the group's recent emergence in December 2025, there are no publicly documented notable campaigns or major incidents reported by established threat intelligence sources, though the victim count indicates active operations. The group appears to be currently active based on the recent first observation date, though comprehensive analysis from major security agencies has not yet been published given the short timeframe since emergence. The group has been linked to 320 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on December 7, 2025; most recent post July 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 26, 2026bladex.com listed by lockbit5on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by lockbit5

lockbit5 has been linked to 320 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bladex.com is reported in Panama.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by lockbit5 means bladex.com 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 lockbit5'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.