Was NationsBuilders Insurance Services hit by ransomware?

NationsBuilders Insurance Services was listed by the aurora ransomware operation, 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 aurora ransomware group?

aurora 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 NationsBuilders Insurance Services breach?

aurora published data attributed to NationsBuilders Insurance Services. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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NationsBuilders Insurance Services

Claimed by Aurora · listed 12 days ago

11d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 22, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Aurora
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NationsBuilders Insurance Services (NBIS) is a US-based specialty managing general underwriter focused on crane & rigging, concrete-pumping, heavy-haul, and residential-builder insurance. Founded in Atlanta in 2001, the company was acquired by Align Financial / DUAL North America (part of Howden Group) in August 2021.

Industry: Specialty Insurance — Crane, Rigging, Concrete-Pumping & Construction
Address: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 2001

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration confirmed across 2.7M+ files including claims, policies, HR, financial data, and customer information typical of an insurance underwriter. Data published with no ransom, indicating intentional disclosure. Scale and sensitivity of insurance operations data (PII at scale, policyholder details, claims history) meets critical threshold.

Aurora claims to have exfiltrated 2,748,845 filetree entries across 24 shares including AIM, ImageRight, claims and policy-admin stores, HR, finance, IT systems, and decade-old M&A diligence materials. No ransom demand stated; data already published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Claims administration records
Policy administration data
HR and personnel files
Financial records
IT systems and configurations
M&A diligence documents (10+ years)
AIM system data
ImageRight repository

What the group claims

[insurance] *** (NBIS) is the premier US underwriter of crane & rigging, concrete-pumping, heavy-haul, and residential-builder insurance — a specialty managing general underwriter founded in Atlanta in 2001, acquired by Align Financial / DUAL North America (Howden Group) in August 2021. 2,748,845 filetree entries across 24 shares (AIM, IMAGERIGHT, the claims and policy-admin stores, HR, finance, IT, and a decade of M&A diligence rooms).

Sources

Source

Indexed 12 days ago

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post June 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 22, 2026NationsBuilders Insurance Services listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 21 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,183 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means NationsBuilders Insurance Services 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 aurora'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.