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Advanta Genetics LLC

Claimed by Aurora · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Healthcare
Listed on leak site
Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Advanta Genetics LLC is a CLIA/CAP-accredited clinical toxicology and molecular diagnostics laboratory operating in the United States, accessible at aalabs.com. The company offers services including metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), precision metagenomics for infectious disease testing, clinical toxicology, and molecular diagnostics. It has research collaborations with Illumina, Asuragen, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and is a preferred laboratory provider within Southwestern Health Resources' clinically integrated network of 7,000+ providers.

Industry
Clinical Laboratory & Molecular Diagnostics
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The breach involves confirmed exfiltration and publication of highly regulated, sensitive data at scale: tens of thousands of patient medical records (including opioid therapy and Medicare data covered under HIPAA), provider PII enabling identity fraud and prescription fraud, employee identity documents (W-2s, I-9s, passport scans), full financial records, privileged legal communications, and Active Directory credential stores — constituting a multi-category critical data breach affecting patien

The Aurora ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated a broad range of highly sensitive data from Advanta Genetics LLC, including tens of thousands of patient records with chronic opioid therapy charts, Medicare audit records, provider PII (SSNs, DEA numbers, state licenses), employee identity documents, 102 QuickBooks company files, trade secrets including AI architecture and FDA pre-submission materials, privileged attorney-client communications, and Active Directory domain controller data (NTDS.dit and SAM hives). The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the group has released or is releasing the exfiltrated data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Patient medical records (chronic opioid therapy charts)
  • Medicare audit records
  • Provider SSNs, DEA numbers, and state licenses (20+ states)
  • Employee W-2s and I-9s with passport scans
  • Employee personnel packages (50+ staff)
  • QuickBooks company files (102 files)
  • Vendor and payroll records
  • Bank account linkage data
  • OSPRI Biopath investment decks and valuation models
  • FDA pre-submission packets
  • Proprietary AI diagnostic architecture ('The Brain')
  • Attorney-client privileged memos
  • Texas Medical Board Remedial Plan documents
  • Federal NORA subpoena records
  • Active Directory NTDS.dit and SAM hives

What the group claims

[health] Advanta Genetics LLC — a respected CLIA/CAP-accredited clinical toxicology and molecular diagnostics laborator. The exposed material includes: Tens of thousands of real patient lives — including highly sensitive chronic opioid therapy charts flagged by the Texas Medical Board and elderly Medicare audit records. Provider identities and prescribing power — SSNs, DEA numbers, and state licenses from 20+ states that can be turned into black-market "script pads". Gold-standard identity theft kits — W-2s, I-9s with passport scans, and full employee packages for 50+ staff. 102 complete QuickBooks company files exposing every vendor, payroll run, bank link, and financial secret across the Advanta/RedLeaf/OSPRI empire. High-value trade secrets — OSPRI Biopath investment decks, valuation models, FDA pre-submission packets, and the proprietary "The Brain" AI diagnostic architecture. Explosive privileged attorney-client memos on active regulatory battles (Texas Medical Board Remedial Plan #19-153 and a federal NORA subpoena). Active Directory domain controller data (NTDS.dit and SAM hives).

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, 2026Advanta Genetics LLC 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Advanta Genetics LLC is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Advanta Genetics LLC 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, CISA (United States), 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.