Was Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay hit by ransomware?

Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay was listed by the crypto24 ransomware operation (Uruguay), 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 crypto24 ransomware group?

crypto24 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 Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay breach?

crypto24 published data attributed to Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (~700 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay

Claimed by Crypto24 · listed 10 months ago

700 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 3, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Crypto24
Status: Data leaked
Country: Uruguay
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 3, 2025
Data size: 700 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) is a Uruguayan state-owned mortgage bank operating under the country's financial system. It provides mortgage loans, savings products, and related financial services primarily to individuals and families in Uruguay. As a public institution it handles large volumes of regulated customer financial and property data.

Industry: Mortgage & Retail Banking

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 700 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data from a state-owned bank includes regulated customer PII at scale, financial records, credit/risk files, and property/title documents — all categories of highly sensitive regulated data — and the data has already been published, maximising harm potential.

The group crypto24 claims to have exfiltrated over 700 GB of data from Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay, including customer PII, financial and accounting records, legal contracts, property and title documents, credit and risk files, market and trading operations data, and IT/security configuration information. The disclosed status indicates the data has already been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Customer PII
Financial and accounting records
Legal contracts
Property and title documents
Credit and risk files
Market and trading operations data
IT and security configuration information

What the group claims

We have exfiltrated over 700GB of most sensitive highly sensitive customer PII, financial/accounting records, legal/contracts, property/title documents, credit and risk files, market/trading operations data, and IT/security configuration information.

Sources

Victim sitewww.bhu.net

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About crypto24

Crypto24 is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2025, with a primary financial motivation evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple geographic regions. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting pattern suggests either independent operations or a new ransomware-as-a-service offering given the diverse geographic spread of their 43 documented victims. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not yet been thoroughly documented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of technology, financial services, healthcare, and business services sectors indicates they likely employ common initial access vectors such as phishing or exploitation of public-facing applications to gain entry into victim networks. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations primarily in the United States while also conducting operations across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, as well as extending their reach to Egypt, suggesting either a globally distributed affiliate network or opportunistic targeting based on vulnerable infrastructure discovery. Crypto24 remains active as of the latest available intelligence reporting, though given their recent emergence, comprehensive details about their specific tactics, techniques, and procedures await further analysis by established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 49 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 8, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 3, 2025Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay listed by crypto24on the group's public leak site

Data size: 700 GB

Other recent disclosures by crypto24

crypto24 has been linked to 49 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full crypto24 dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay is reported in Uruguay.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by crypto24 means Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay 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 crypto24'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.