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Buford-Thompson Company, LTD

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 1 day ago

1.707 TB
Data size
350+ employees, 2000+ donor records, 36+ active projects records
1d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Construction
Listed on leak site
Oct 1, 2026
Data size
1.707 TB
Records
350+ employees, 2000+ donor records, 36+ active projects

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Buford-Thompson Company, LTD is a Texas-based general construction contractor with over 30 years of history specializing in school construction for K-12 districts across the state. The company manages 36+ active school construction projects and maintains relationships with multiple Independent School Districts (ISDs).

Industry
Construction – General Contracting (K-12 School Projects)
Address
Texas, US
Employees
30+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII at scale (350+ SSNs in plaintext), attorney-client privileged material, complete banking credentials and infrastructure, and sensitive construction/bid data for critical K-12 infrastructure projects. Multiple regulated data types present.

AUR0RA claims to have exfiltrated 1.707 TB of data including 5 years of employee W-2 records with plaintext Social Security numbers for 350+ current and former employees, complete banking infrastructure and account credentials for Frost Bank, litigation discovery files containing attorney-client privileged communications, school construction project blueprints and cost structures, and incidental personal records of the Thompson family owners.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • W-2 and EFW2 files (2021–2025) with plaintext SSNs for 350+ employees
  • Attorney-client privileged litigation files (Stanton ISD v. BTC)
  • Frost Bank account numbers, ACH routing credentials, and bank statements (2022–2026)
  • 36+ active school construction project blueprints, bid estimates, and cost structures
  • Subcontractor pricing and change orders
  • Thompson family personal insurance, loans, property records, and tax documents
  • Employee addresses and wage information

What the group claims

Texas construction general contractor with 30+ years of history building schools for K-12 districts across the state.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ Buford-Thompson Company, LTD, a Texas construction general contractor with 30+ years of history building schools for K-12 districts across the state. The exposed dataset totals 1.707 TB and includes: 5 years of W-2 EFW2 files (2021–2025) containing plaintext Social Security numbers, wages, and addresses for 350+ current and former employees — every SSN readable without any decryption. 9.3 GB of attorney-client privileged files from the Stanton ISD v. BTC litigation — legal strategy, discovery responses, and counsel communications. Complete Frost Bank infrastructure — four account numbers, ACH routing credentials, line-of-credit agreements (renewed April 2026), signature cards, and monthly bank statements spanning 2022–2026. 36+ active school construction projects — blueprints, bid estimates, cost structures, subcontractor pricing, and change orders for ISD projects across Texas. A competitor's dream dataset. 2,000+ donor records from Human Services Campus (Phoenix homeless-services nonprofit) with full PII: name, address, phone, email, employer, and donation amounts. QuickBooks company files (.QBW) from Along Side Ministries (Phoenix prison ministry) containing complete accountin…

Data the group says was taken

  • W-2 EFW2 files
  • Social Security numbers
  • wages
  • addresses
  • attorney-client privileged files
  • litigation documents
  • bank account numbers
  • ACH routing credentials
  • line-of-credit agreements
  • bank statements
  • blueprints
  • bid estimates
  • subcontractor pricing
  • change orders
  • donor records
  • QuickBooks files
  • personal tax documents
  • personal insurance
  • loan documents
  • property records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Buford-Thompson Company, LTD

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 day ago

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Disclosure context

About AUR0RA

AUR0RA is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least five known victims across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Given the recency of the group's emergence and the limited number of confirmed victims, detailed public attribution from major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant has not yet been established, and as such claims regarding origin, affiliation, or operational infrastructure cannot be responsibly made at this time. The group's targeting pattern suggests a deliberate focus on mid-market industries including commercial interiors, real estate and title insurance, warehousing and material handling, manufacturing, and oil and gas and industrial manufacturing sectors, which may indicate an opportunistic selection strategy or a preference for organizations with potentially sensitive operational or financial data and limited cybersecurity maturity. No specific attack methodology, tooling, or extortion tactics have been publicly documented by reputable sources for this group as of the time of this writing, though the sector targeting profile is consistent with groups known to conduct double extortion operations. AUR0RA should be considered an emerging threat actor under active monitoring, with its current operational status assessed as active based on the recency of first observed activity and the absence of any publicly reported law enforcement disruption or disbandment. The group has been linked to 23 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post October 1, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 1, 2026Buford-Thompson Company, LTD listed by AUR0RA on the group's public leak site
Data size
1.707 TB
Records
350+ employees, 2000+ donor records, 36+ active projects

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 23 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AUR0RA dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Buford-Thompson Company, LTD is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Buford-Thompson Company, LTD 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 AUR0RA'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.