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hamptonsecurities.com

Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

500 GB
Data size
1. Employees records
19m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 4, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Black Basta
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Dec 4, 2024
Data size
500 GB
Records
1. Employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hampton Securities is a Canadian full-service boutique investment platform founded in 1996, offering wealth management, capital markets, institutional sales and trading, and insurance services. Based in Toronto, the firm serves both retail and institutional clients with advisory and portfolio management services across private and public issuers.

Industry
Investment Banking & Wealth Management
Address
141 Adelaide Street W., Suite 1800, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5, Canada
Founded
1996

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 500 GB of regulated financial data including customer PII, employee documents, and financial records from a Canadian investment firm subject to CIPF and CIRO regulation. Financial sector, personal data at scale, and regulated information exposure.

Black Basta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of data from Hampton Securities, including employee and customer personal documents, financial data, NDAs, and confidential business information. The group has published the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee personal documents
  • Customer personal documents
  • Financial data
  • NDAs and confidential agreements
  • Business confidential data

What the group claims

Founded in 1996, Hampton continues to be one of Canada’s leading full-service boutique investment platforms, delivering both wealth management and capital markets services. Our team of advisors, bankers, insurance professionals, and associates prides itself on providing bespoke investment solutions and tailored service to both our retail and institutional clients. Coupled with our all encompassing, individualized, insurance and estate planning solutions, you can rest assured knowing the full scope of your finances, business, legacy, and succession are well positioned for whatever the future may hold.SITE: www.hamptonsecurities.com Address : 141 Adelaide Street W., Suite 1800 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5 CanadaTEL#: (416) 862-7800ALL DATA SIZE: ≈500gb 1. Employees, customers personal documents 2. Financial data 3. NDA’s, Confidential data & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Black Basta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has since compromised approximately 800 organizations worldwide. The group operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with suspected ties to the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation, though their exact country of origin remains unconfirmed by law enforcement agencies. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and credential stuffing attacks, subsequently deploying their custom ransomware that employs ChaCha20 encryption algorithm and employs double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with a particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and agriculture sectors. Notable victims have included various healthcare systems and manufacturing companies, though specific ransom amounts and high-profile attacks have not been widely disclosed in public law enforcement advisories. As of 2024, Black Basta remains an active threat with continued operations and regular updates to their leak site indicating ongoing compromise activities. The group has been linked to 1,323 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2022; most recent post January 11, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: BlackBasta.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 4, 2024hamptonsecurities.com listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
500 GB
Records
1. Employees

Other recent disclosures by Black Basta

Black Basta has been linked to 1,323 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hamptonsecurities.com is reported in Canada, a country with 1,055 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means hamptonsecurities.com 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Black Basta'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.