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firstdigital.com

Claimed by Settra · listed 6 days ago

6d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Settra
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

FirstDigital is a Utah-registered telecommunications provider offering unified communications, VoIP/phone systems, network services, and cloud services. The company acquired Veracity Networks in 2021 and operates a privately owned fiber network across the Intermountain West with enterprise customers.

Industry
Telecommunications & VoIP Services
Address
357 South 670 West, Suite 300, Lindon, Utah 84042
Employees
89
Founded
2005

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive PII at scale (89 employees' SSNs, salaries, banking details, dates of birth); customer financial records; and evidence of systematic fraud. Regulatory violations alleged (FCC jurisdiction telecom, tax fraud, wage misclassification affecting government budget).

The Settra group claims to have accessed an unprotected archive containing customer billing records, employee HR files with salaries and SSNs, corporate credit card statements, balance sheets through January 2026, insurance forms, and legal documents. The group alleges systematic billing fraud, unauthorized personal expenses on corporate cards, and employee debt irregularities.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Customer invoices and billing records (March-June 2026)
  • Call detail records
  • Employee salary information and Social Security Numbers
  • Employee dates of birth and banking details
  • Corporate American Express statements (Jan-June 2026)
  • Balance sheets through January 2026
  • Insurance forms
  • HR files with hire dates and reporting structure
  • Dealer contracts
  • Legal documents
  • Employee loan/debt records

What the group claims

The Digital Cartel: How a Telecom Empire Robs Its Own Customers and Employees A company that sells c...

The leak post

captured from the group's site
# The Digital Cartel: How a Telecom Empire Robs Its Own Customers and Employees
### A company that sells connectivity, trust, and quality service as its philosophy maintains an archive that tells a very different story — about systematic billing fraud totaling $2+ million annually, family vacations to Paris charged to corporate cards, 89 employees whose salaries and Social Security Numbers sit in unprotected folders, and tax schemes that defraud the US budget of nearly a million dollars every year.
_This article covers only a portion of the data we have chosen to release. Everything else will be available for download after full publication. Names of private individuals, Social Security numbers, exact salaries, dates of birth, and banking details have been intentionally redacted — the company failed to protect them, and you will be able to see everything after publication._
In telecommunications, boundaries are always visible: contracts define prices, SLAs guarantee quality, the FCC sets the rules. The data we obtained had none of that. No encryption. No access controls. No audit trail. Customer invoices, dealer contracts, call detail records, HR files with salary information, insu…

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About settra

Settra is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, having claimed at least 11 victims within a relatively short operational window. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, detailed technical attribution remains unconfirmed. Their targeting pattern shows a geographic concentration in the United States, Taiwan, Portugal, Singapore, and Canada, suggesting an opportunistic rather than narrowly focused regional strategy. Affected sectors include Consumer Services, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, and Agriculture and Food Production, indicating the group does not restrict itself to a single vertical and likely prioritizes target accessibility over sector-specific expertise. No publicly documented information is currently available to confirm their country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific initial access vectors, encryption methodology, or extortion tactics, and no major law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly reported as of this writing. Given their nascent operational timeline and limited victim count, Settra should be considered an emerging threat actor warranting continued monitoring as their tactics, techniques, and procedures become better characterized through future incident reporting and threat intelligence disclosures. The group has been linked to 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 28, 2026; most recent post August 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 11, 2026firstdigital.com listed by settraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by settra

settra has been linked to 40 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full settra dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,572 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, firstdigital.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by settra means firstdigital.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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on settra'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.