Was Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund hit by ransomware?

Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund was listed by the Ransomhouse ransomware operation (Philippines), 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 Ransomhouse ransomware group?

Ransomhouse 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 Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund breach?

Ransomhouse published data attributed to Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund, Incorporated

listed as Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund · Claimed by Ransomhouse · listed 8 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 11, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Ransomhouse
Status: Data leaked
Country: Philippines
Sector: Public Sector
Listed on leak site: Nov 11, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund, Inc. (PSMBFI) is a duly registered non-stock, non-profit mutual benefit fund association in the Philippines, regulated by the Insurance Commission under Mutual Benefit Association License Number 2025-03-R. It provides life insurance coverage, financial aid, and loan facilities to public safety practitioners — both uniformed (e.g., police, military) and civilian personnel. The organisation processes insurance claims, death benefits, and various loan products for its member base.

Industry: Mutual Benefit Association & Insurance (Public Safety / Law Enforcement)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a regulated mutual benefit and insurance association holding large volumes of sensitive PII and financial records for uniformed public safety personnel (police, military, civilians). The status is 'data_published', confirming exfiltration and public disclosure of regulated financial and personal data at scale, with particular sensitivity given the law-enforcement membership base.

RansomHouse claims to have compromised PSMBFI and has published the victim's data, indicating exfiltration of member and organisational data. The group characterises the listing as resulting from the victim's failure to act on the compromise or prioritising financial interests over protecting entrusted data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member personal information (PII)
Insurance policy records
Loan and financial records
Beneficiary data
Claims documentation
Employee/personnel records

What the group claims

The Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund, Inc. (PSMBFI) is a non-stock, non-profit mutual benefit fund association dedicated to providing life insurance protection and financial assistance to its members, including personnel from various public safety agencies in the Philippines. Its services include various insurance plans, loans, and benefits tailored specifically for public safety practitioners, both uniformed and civilian. PSMBFI ensures timely releases of cash advances to beneficiaries for funeral expenses and processes full claims efficiently.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Source

Indexed 8 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse is a ransomware group that emerged in June 2021, operating primarily for financial gain through extortion campaigns targeting organizations across multiple sectors globally. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear based on publicly available intelligence, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent cybercriminal organization rather than a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. Ransomhouse employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before deploying their ransomware payload and threatening to publish the information on their leak site if victims refuse to pay the demanded ransom. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach, with documented attacks against 187 victims primarily concentrated in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, focusing heavily on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively documented by major security firms, the group's consistent victim count and geographic distribution indicate sustained operational capability since their emergence. As of current reporting, Ransomhouse remains active with no known major law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding efforts. The group has been linked to 210 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 1, 2021; most recent post June 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: RANSOM HOUSE.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 11, 2025Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund listed by Ransomhouseon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Ransomhouse

Ransomhouse has been linked to 210 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Ransomhouse dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Public Sector sector, which has 466 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund is reported in Philippines, a country with 28 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Ransomhouse means Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund 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 Ransomhouse'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.