Was Aurora Technologies hit by ransomware?

Aurora Technologies was listed by the thegentlemen 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 Aurora Technologies breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Aurora Technologies. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Aurora Technologies

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 20 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Aurora Technologies, Inc. (ATI) is North America's largest fabricator and stocking distributor of thermosets, thermoplastics, and non-metallic materials, founded in 1988 in Missouri. The company operates 7 locations across the US and Mexico with ~200 employees and ~$24M annual revenue, serving electrical, oil & gas, medical, and materials handling sectors.

Industry: Custom Plastic Fabrication & Materials Distribution
Address: 19 Industrial Drive, Pacific, Missouri 63069, USA
Employees: 200
Founded: 1988

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed status: 'data_published') indicating confirmed compromise, but the leak post itself contains no detail on proof files, data categories, or scope of exfiltration. The absence of specific proof counts or data inventory descriptions, combined with no stated operational disruption, places this at medium severity pending further evidence.

The ransomware group claims to have accessed Aurora Technologies' systems and published data. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what categories of data are at stake.

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What the group claims

ati-1.com zoominfo.com/c/aurora-technologies-inc/1151986102 Aurora Technologies / ATI orth America's largest fabricator and stocking distributor of thermosets, thermoplastics and other non-metallic materials — founded in 1988 by Tom C. White in a barn in Ballwin, Missouri, now run with his son Thomas White III, with ~200 employees, ~$24M revenue, 7 locations across the US and Mexico (Pacific MO HQ, Spartanburg SC, Grand Haven MI, El Paso TX, Apodaca Mexico) and 300,000+ sq ft of manufacturing/warehouse space. Capabilities: compression molding (SMC/BMC — 16 presses at its Polyply division), CNC machining of engineering plastics (30% glass-filled PEEK down to UHMW), thermoforming, waterjet and punch-press work — with an inventory moat that means days, not weeks, of lead time. Markets: electrical (a certified manufacturer of insulating components for arc furnaces — a rare, high-barrier niche), oil & gas, medical/lab, materials handling; ISO 9001 since 2003

Sources

Victim siteati-1.com

Source

Indexed 20 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 868 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Aurora Technologies listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 868 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,577 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Aurora Technologies 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 thegentlemen'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.