Was Atlas Metal Industries Inc hit by ransomware?

Atlas Metal Industries Inc was listed by the aurora ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Atlas Metal Industries Inc breach?

aurora published data attributed to Atlas Metal Industries Inc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Atlas Metal Industries Inc

Claimed by Aurora · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 29, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Aurora
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Atlas Metal Industries Inc. is a privately held manufacturer of commercial foodservice equipment headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company designs and fabricates stainless steel and aluminum serving line equipment—including hot, cold, refrigerated, and modular serving units—sold under product lines such as INFINITI, BL Series, and CA Series. It operates under the brand atlasfoodserv.com and serves institutional settings including K-12 schools and commercial food service environments.

Industry: Commercial Foodservice Equipment Manufacturing
Address: Miami, Florida, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The exfiltration includes large-scale regulated PII (SSNs, DOBs, bank routing numbers, W-4 tax data for employees dating to 2018), plaintext and hashed credentials enabling further compromise, and full proprietary product-design and manufacturing IP — constituting confirmed exfiltration of both regulated personal financial/identity data and sensitive business data at significant scale.

The Aurora ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Atlas Metal Industries on or about April 8, 2026, with the attack identified April 22, 2026; the published dataset encompasses the complete Microsoft Dynamics GP environment including payroll databases with employee PII, SQL Server credentials, 74 GB of Autodesk Vault product-design history, CNC fabrication programs, and full SQL Server database backup chains.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Payroll records database (PYREC) — 15.8 GB
Employee SSNs, DOBs, and home addresses
Direct-deposit bank routing numbers
Salary and W-4 tax data
Payroll garnishments and check history (from 2018)
30+ SQL Server login accounts with password hashes
Active Directory domain account credentials
Autodesk Vault Professional backup — 74 GB (2019–2026 product design history)
CNC fabrication programs (laser-cutter and Amada punch-press G-code)
8 SQL Server databases with full backup chains (ATLAS, PYREC, DYNAMICS, TEST, TWO, AMIT, master, msdb, DynamicsGPSecurity)
TimeClock Plus SQL credentials in plaintext XML
Infrastructure configuration files

What the group claims

[food, metal] Atlas Metal Industries Inc. — a privately held commercial-foodservice-equipment manufacturer headquartered in Miami, Florida. The dataset is a complete Microsoft Dynamics GP environment: production databases, payroll records, system credentials, Autodesk Vault product-design backups, CNC fabrication programs, and all supporting infrastructure configuration. The exfiltration occurred on or about April 8, 2026; the attack was identified April 22, 2026. The exposed material includes: 15.8 GB of payroll-records database (PYREC) — full Employee Master with SSNs, DOBs, addresses, direct-deposit bank routing numbers, salary, W-4 tax data, garnishments, and check history dating to at least 2018. 30+ SQL Server login accounts with password hashes in a sp_help_revlogin dump — named employees, system admins (DYNSA, sa), service accounts, and Active Directory domain accounts. 74 GB of Autodesk Vault Professional backup — complete product-design history from 2019 through 2026, covering every product line Atlas Metal manufactures. Hundreds of CNC fabrication programs — laser-cutter and Amada punch-press G-code for the full catalogue of sheet-metal components. A base64-encoded SQL credential for the TimeClock Plus timekeeping system, stored in plaintext XML. 8 SQL Server databases with full backup chains — ATLAS (primary), PYREC (payroll), DYNAMICS (system), TEST (18 GB dev clone), TWO, AMIT, plus system databases (master, msdb, DynamicsGPSecurity).

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months 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

April 29, 2026Atlas Metal Industries Inc listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Atlas Metal Industries Inc is reported in Canada, a country with 314 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Atlas Metal Industries Inc 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.