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Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc.

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 2 hours ago

127 GB (13 SQL Server database backups) + 11 GB Azure DevOps repository
Data size
40+ employees, 200+ client contracts records
Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services / Property Tax Consulting
Listed on leak site
Oct 11, 2026
Data size
127 GB (13 SQL Server database backups) + 11 GB Azure DevOps repository
Records
40+ employees, 200+ client contracts

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. is one of the oldest property tax appraisal consulting firms in the United States, founded in 1926 and headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas. The firm appraises mineral, industrial, and utility properties for county appraisal districts across multiple states including Texas, Wyoming, North Dakota, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, with approximately 40 employees and ~$5.3M annual revenue.

Industry
Property Tax Appraisal Consulting
Address
Addison/Dallas, Texas, United States
Employees
40
Founded
1926

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of PII at scale (40+ employees' complete identity packages including SSNs, medical records), regulated HR documentation, proprietary source code, sensitive business intelligence (client contracts with county pricing), financial records, and cryptographic materials enabling document forgery and system impersonation. The combination of identity data, medical records, credentials, and signing certificates creates severe identity theft and operational risk.

The AUR0RA group claims to have exfiltrated 127 GB of SQL Server database backups (including the complete TYPortal web portal database with property owner records and credentials) and 11 GB of Azure DevOps source code repository. The group also claims to have obtained comprehensive HR records, client contracts with competitive pricing, complete financial records, and cryptographic materials including a PKCS#12 digital signing certificate.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL Server database backups (TYPortal web portal)
  • Property owner records and user credentials
  • HR records (Social Security cards, W-4s, direct deposit forms, salary schedules, medical records)
  • Azure DevOps repository with proprietary COBOL source code
  • 200+ client contracts with county-level pricing
  • Bank statements and 10-year financial records
  • Developer passwords and PKCS#12 digital signing certificate
  • Payroll and accounts receivable data

What the group claims

Founded in 1926, headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas. One of the oldest property tax appraisal consulting firms in the US, appraising mineral, industrial, and utility properties for county appraisal districts across multiple states. ~40 employees, ~$5.3M annual revenue.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ Infomedia A/S — Denmark's premier media monitoring company, co-owned by the country's two largest media conglomerates (JP/Politikens Hus and Berlingske Media). Infomedia sits at the heart of Nordic media. It monitors newspapers, broadcasts, and digital sources for hundreds of corporate and government clients — including the EU Parliament, A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and major Nordic media groups (Schibsted, Polaris, NRK, Amedia). The exposed material spans: <redacted> <redacted> SQL Server sysadmin credentials — sa / ballmer for the Opoint CRM database at crmdb.opoint.com. An RSA private key — the TLS key for the Infomedia Export Data API service. Named salary specifications for 100+ employees across Denmark (2010–2018) and Estonia (2009–2024). 30 GB of Finance data — income statements, balance sheets, insurance policies, Danske Bank payment records, vendor contracts, tax certificates. <redacted> <redacted> ](http://u6lieui2dakbctcjea2bz4r4q32r7t36nwljovqbv7mxs6o2smgxixid.onion/blog/infomedia-as-9c5b3698)### [Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. — founded in 1926, headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas — is one of the oldest property tax appraisal consulting firms i…

Data the group says was taken

  • SQL Server database backups
  • HR records
  • Social Security cards
  • W-4 forms
  • direct deposit forms
  • salary schedules
  • medical records
  • termination documents
  • source code
  • COBOL source code
  • client contracts
  • bank statements
  • budget records
  • accounts receivable
  • payroll records
  • PKCS#12 digital signing certificate
  • user credentials
  • property owner records

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours 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 27 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post October 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 11, 2026Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. listed by AUR0RA on the group's public leak site
Data size
127 GB (13 SQL Server database backups) + 11 GB Azure DevOps repository
Records
40+ employees, 200+ client contracts

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 27 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 Professional Services / Property Tax Consulting sector. Geographically, Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. 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.