Standard Bank Group

Standard Bank Group was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to prinz eugen in April 2026. The organization, operating in an undisclosed sector in Unknown, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

prinz eugen operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Beginning on February 27th 2026, The 3 week long attack on both Standard Bank and Liberty has resulted in 1.2TB of data being exfiltrated from internal servers.