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Doyon Drilling, Inc.

listed as doyon.com | doyondrilling.com · Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 17, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbasta
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Energy
Listed on leak site
Apr 17, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Doyon Drilling, Inc. is a subsidiary of Doyon, Limited (an Alaska Native regional corporation) that operates nine advanced drilling rigs on Alaska's North Slope, providing oil and gas land drilling services in extreme arctic conditions. Founded in 1982 as a joint venture, the company specializes in exploration and casing services with in-house safety and training operations.

Industry
Oil & Gas Drilling Services
Address
11500 Sukdu Way Ste 200, Anchorage, Alaska 99515
Employees
800+
Founded
1982

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of significant volume (700+ GB) of corporate and employee PII data from a critical energy sector company operating in strategic Arctic infrastructure; posted and published by threat actor.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 700 GB of corporate data including accounting records, HR files, employee personal information, and confidential company documents from Doyon Drilling and its parent company Doyon, Limited.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Corporate accounting records
  • HR files
  • Employee personal information
  • Confidential internal documents
  • User credentials/scans

What the group claims

Doyon, Limited, the regional Alaska Native corporation for Interior Alaska, is a for-profit corporation with more than 20,500 shareholders. Headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, Doyon employs over 800 individuals in Alaska and across the nation. Doyon operates a diverse family of companies in the areas of oil field services, government contracting utilities, construction, information technology, natural resources development, tourism, and real estate.SITE: www.doyon.com Address : 1 Doyon Place, Suite 300 Fairbanks, Alaska 99701-2941Doyon Drilling Inc. (DDI) operates on the North Slope of Alaska with nine of the most unique oil and gas land drilling rigs specially designed to drill oil wells in extreme conditions. In 1982 as a joint venture between Doyon, Limited, an Alaska Native regional corporation, and Nugget Alaska, Inc.SITE: www.doyondrilling.com Address : Doyon Drilling, Inc. Address. 11500 Sukdu Way Ste 200. Anchorage, Alaska 99515ALL DATA SIZE: ~700gb+ 1. Corporate data(Accountings, HR and etc.) 2. Employees personal infos 3. Scans, Confidential, users & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a highly sophisticated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and operates with a primary motivation of financial extortion, having rapidly established itself as one of the most prolific ransomware operations of the modern era with over 500 confirmed victims globally. The group is widely assessed by researchers including Mandiant and CISA to have likely ties to former members of the Conti ransomware syndicate following that group's dissolution in mid-2022, and operates as a private Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model with a closed affiliate structure rather than open recruitment, with suspected links to the FIN7 threat actor cluster based on observed tooling overlaps documented by SentinelOne and Microsoft. Black Basta employs a double extortion methodology, exfiltrating sensitive victim data prior to encryption and threatening publication on their Tor-based leak site "Basta News" to compound pressure on victims; initial access is predominantly achieved through phishing campaigns, purchase of stolen credentials, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities including QakBot malware distribution, with the group subsequently deploying tools such as Cobalt Strike, SystemBC, and their custom encryptor targeting both Windows and VMware ESXi environments using a ChaCha20 encryption algorithm. Per CISA and FBI joint advisory AA24-131A published in May 2024, the group has struck over 500 organizations across North America, Europe, and Australia, with high-profile victims including Ascension Health, Capita, the American Dental Association, and Rheinmetall, demonstrating a clear preference for manufacturing, business services, technology, transportation, and food production sectors across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy. As of the time of available public reporting, Black Basta remained operationally active, though internal chat logs leaked in early 2025 revealed significant internal tensions and potential organizational fragmentation that security researchers assessed could impact the group's near-term operational cohesion. The group has been linked to 523 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.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 17, 2024doyon.com | doyondrilling.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blackbasta

blackbasta has been linked to 523 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 Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, doyon.com | doyondrilling.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means doyon.com | doyondrilling.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 blackbasta'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.