Ransomware victim disclosure
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Claimed by aurora · listed 9 days ago
Status timeline
- Listed
May 12, 2026
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- aurora
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- PH
- Sector
- Business Services
- Listed on leak site
- May 12, 2026
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileStartec Group of Companies is a privately held Calgary-based industrial original equipment manufacturer founded in 1976 by Joe Cawthorn. The company designs, fabricates, installs, and services compression, process, and refrigeration systems for oil-and-gas operators and the energy-transition sector, including RNG, hydrogen, CO2 sequestration, and flare-gas capture. It employs approximately 270 people and exports roughly 80% of its output to US customers including Pembina, ARC Resources, SemCAMS, Cenovus, and Shell.
- Industry
- Industrial OEM — Oil & Gas Compression, Process & Refrigeration Systems
- Address
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Employees
- 270
- Founded
- 1976
Attack summary
Severity: critical — The disclosed data includes regulated PII at scale (SINs, banking/EFT data, passport scans for 600+ individuals), privileged legal communications, cryptographic private keys enabling infrastructure compromise, family financial records, and sensitive customer engineering IP — representing a near-total corporate and personal data breach across multiple regulated categories.The Aurora ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated a broad corpus of highly sensitive corporate data from Startec Group of Companies, with data now published. The exposed material allegedly includes 25 years of payroll records with SIN data for 600+ employees, passport scans, TLS and CA private keys, cyber-insurance documents, privileged litigation files, board-level financial records including family trust and QuickBooks data, customer engineering libraries, Outlook PST mailboxes, and physical security credentials.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- 25 years of payroll records (2001–2026)
- SIN verification register (~600+ employees)
- ADP payroll exports
- T4/ROE/T2200 tax forms
- Banking and EFT direct-deposit data
- 18+ named passport scans
- Pakistan applicant passport and resume pool (~20+)
- Wildcard TLS private keys for *.startec.ca
- Internal Active Directory CA private key
- Cyber-insurance policy (BZA2151)
- Statement of Values and Business Interruption submission to Zurich
- 25+ customer engineering libraries (process specs, as-built drawings, sizing calculations)
- Shell Caroline and Shell Saturn privileged litigation files (~665 MB)
- 12 fiscal years of board packs including in-camera sessions
- 2020 Valuation Report
- Family-trust T3 tax returns
- Succession-planning documents
- Cawthorn family QuickBooks files (.QBW)
- 11 Outlook PST mailboxes
- Physical security access codes (CCTV, alarm, door keys)
What the group claims
Startec Group of Companies, a privately held Calgary-based industrial OEM founded in 1976 by Joe Cawthorn. Startec designs, fabricates, installs, and services compression, process, and refrigeration systems for oil-and-gas operators and the energy-transition sector (RNG, hydrogen, CO&sub2; sequestration, flare-gas capture). The company employs ~270 people and exports ~80% of its cleantech output to US customers including Pembina, ARC Resources, SemCAMS, Cenovus, and Shell. The exposed material spans the entire corporate knowledge base: 25 years of payroll (2001–2026) including a master SIN VERIFICATION.xlsx register, ADP exports, T4/ROE/T2200 forms, banking/EFT direct-deposit data for ~600+ current and former employees 18+ named passport scans plus a Pakistan resume-and-passport applicant pool (~20+) Wildcard TLS private keys for *.startec.ca (2022–2027 series) and the suspected Active-Directory-integrated internal CA private key The cyber-insurance policy (BZA2151) and the Nov 2025 Statement of Values & Business-Interruption submission to Zurich ~25+ named customer engineering libraries (Pembina, ARC, SemCAMS, Cenovus, Shell Scotford) with process specs, as-built drawings, and sizing calculations Shell Caroline + Shell Saturn dispute-counsel files (~665 MB of privileged litigation material) 12 fiscal years of board packs including “in camera” sessions, the 2020 Valuation Report, family-trust T3 returns, and succession-planning documents Cawthorn family QuickBooks files (live .QBW — full chart of accounts, general ledger, every transaction) 11 Outlook PST mailboxes (several multi-GB — named ex-employees' complete email history) Physical-security access codes (CCTV passwords, Telsco alarm chart, all-doors key record)
Sources
Source
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