Was Gemeinde Reichenau hit by ransomware?

Gemeinde Reichenau was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Austria) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

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Gemeinde Reichenau an der Rax

listed as Gemeinde Reichenau · Claimed by Safepay · listed 2 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedSep 11, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Austria
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Sep 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gemeinde Reichenau an der Rax is a municipality in Austria located in the Schwarzatal valley. It operates as a local government entity providing civic services, digital platforms, event management, and tourism information to residents, businesses, and visitors in the region.

Industry: Local Government & Municipal Administration
Address: Hauptstraße 63, 2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Austria

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Municipality listed on ransomware leak site with no operational disruption, proof files, or data details disclosed. The leak post appears to contain boilerplate text about unrelated companies rather than specific evidence regarding this victim.

SafePay ransomware group lists Gemeinde Reichenau an der Rax as a victim on their leak site. The post does not specify whether data was encrypted, exfiltrated, or both, nor does it detail what data categories are at stake.

medium

What the group claims

The official website, reichenau.at, serves as the municipality's central digital information and service platform for residents, businesses, and visitors.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# SafePay ransomware has never provided and does not provide the RaaS
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The company operated in Argentina and was historically connected with the manufacture and distribution of fragrances, toiletries, and personal-care products. … 
The official website, reichenau.at, serves as the municipality's central digital information and service platform for residents, businesses, and visitors. The … 
The practice was founded by Dr. Prat Itha…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitereichenau.at
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 763 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 11, 2026Gemeinde Reichenau listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 763 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full safepay dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Gemeinde Reichenau is reported in Austria, a country with 84 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means Gemeinde Reichenau appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT.at (Austria), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay'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.