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Baresque Group

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 3 months ago

343 GB
Data size
196701 files records
2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Commercial Interiors
Listed on leak site
Jun 6, 2026
Data size
343 GB
Records
196701 files

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Baresque Group is a commercial-interiors company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels. They manufacture and design acoustic panels (Zintra), furniture (FUNC), wallcoverings (botton+gardiner), and surfaces (Scribblr) for commercial spaces.

Industry
Commercial Interiors & Architectural Products
Address
75 Dickson Ave, Artarmon NSW 2064, Australia

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated sensitive data at scale: employee PII (passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, TFNs) spanning multiple countries; plaintext credentials for all critical enterprise systems; workers' compensation medical records with named employees and diagnoses (regulated health information); legal documents with confidentiality clauses; proprietary product R&D; and financial/strategic intelligence. Data scope, regulatory violations, and identity-theft risk are seve

AUR0RA claims to have exfiltrated 343 GB of data including employee PII (passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, tax file numbers), plaintext credentials for critical systems, TLS private keys, product R&D, strategic and financial records, legal documents, and workers' compensation medical records with named employees and diagnoses.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Passport scans (100+)
  • Birth certificates (35)
  • Driver's licences (60+)
  • Tax File Numbers (TFNs, 50+)
  • Plaintext system credentials (Microsoft 365, Elmo Talent HR, LogMeIn, 3CX, Jim2 ERP)
  • TLS private keys (4 customer-facing domains)
  • Product R&D (SolidWorks CAD, manufacturing specs, blueprints)
  • Board packs (2 years)
  • Financial reports and cash-flow models
  • Legal documents (subpoena files, affidavits, Fair Work tribunal filings, settlement agreements)
  • Workers' compensation medical records with employee diagnoses and claim amounts

What the group claims

Baresque Group is a commercial-interiors company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels. The leaked data includes employee identity documents, plaintext credentials for critical systems, TLS private keys, product R&D files, financial and board documents, legal documents, and medical records.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Baresque Group — a respected commercial-interiors company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels. The exposed material includes: 100+ passport scans, 35 birth certificates, 60+ driver's licences, 50+ TFN declarations — the complete identity-theft toolkit for the entire workforce, spanning Australia, the US, and Europe. Plaintext credentials for every critical system — Microsoft 365, HR platform (Elmo Talent), remote-access gateway (LogMeIn), phone system (3CX), ERP (Jim2) — all in browser-export CSVs and an enterprise-wide Password_Listing.xls that had been sitting on a shared drive since at least 2017. 4 TLS private keys for customer-facing domains — enabling impersonation of the company's websites. 343 GB of product R&D — SolidWorks CAD files, manufacturing specifications, and product blueprints for Zintra acoustic panels, FUNC furniture, botton+gardiner wallcoverings, and Scribblr surfaces. The complete design library. Two years of board packs, financial reports, and cash-flow models — the company's entire strategic and financial position laid bare. Privileged legal documents — active subpoena files, sworn affidavit exhibits, Fair Work A…

Data the group says was taken

  • passport scans
  • birth certificates
  • driver's licences
  • TFN declarations
  • plaintext credentials
  • TLS private keys
  • CAD files
  • manufacturing specifications
  • product blueprints
  • board packs
  • financial reports
  • cash-flow models
  • legal documents
  • subpoena files
  • affidavit exhibits
  • Fair Work Australia tribunal filings
  • settlement agreements
  • workers compensation medical records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Baresque Group

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months 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 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post August 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 6, 2026Baresque Group listed by AUR0RAon the group's public leak site
Data size
343 GB
Records
196701 files

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 10 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 Commercial Interiors sector. Geographically, Baresque Group is reported in Australia, a country with 455 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Baresque Group 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, ACSC (Australia), 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.