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Banco Promerica

Claimed by Snatch · listed 2 years ago

29m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 13, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Snatch
Status
Data leaked
Country
Costa Rica
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Jan 13, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Banco Promerica is a regional financial institution operating in Costa Rica as part of Grupo Promerica (PROMERICA FINANCIAL CORP holding). The bank offers retail and corporate banking services including deposit accounts, credit cards, loans, insurance products, and digital banking channels across Central America.

Industry
Banking & Financial Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed data exfiltration from a major regional financial institution with access to customer PII, financial records, and transaction data at scale. Financial sector and regional cross-border operations elevate sensitivity despite lack of stated ransom or specific proof file count.

Snatch group claims to have compromised Banco Promerica and exfiltrated data. The leak post references the corporate structure but specific details on data volume, operational impact, or specific data categories are not provided in the available excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • customer financial records
  • banking transaction data
  • corporate financial information

What the group claims

Grupo Promerica es un conjunto de instituciones financieras enlazadas a través del holding PROMERICA FINANCIAL CORP (PFC), el cual es dirigido por un equipo multinacional de banqueros, con conocimiento puntual de las actividades económicas y financieras que se llevan a cabo en cada uno de

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Snatch

Snatch is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting organizations across multiple sectors including business services, government, education, manufacturing, and healthcare. The group has compromised at least 142 known victims, with their attacks concentrated primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and France. Little is publicly documented about Snatch's specific country of origin or affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation. The group's attack methodology and specific technical details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms or government agencies. While Snatch has maintained a notable victim count across diverse geographic regions and industry sectors, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile attacks that have drawn significant public attention or law enforcement action. Based on available public information, Snatch appears to remain an active ransomware operation as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive details about their current operational status and recent activities are limited in open-source intelligence. The group has been linked to 142 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 29, 2021; most recent post May 16, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 13, 2024Banco Promerica listed by Snatchon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Banco Promerica is reported in Costa Rica, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Snatch means Banco Promerica 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 Snatch'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.