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Mortgage Investors Group

listed as migonline.com · Claimed by Black Basta · listed 2 years ago

1.5 TB
Data size
18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 11, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Status
Data leaked
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Jan 11, 2025
Data size
1.5 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mortgage Investors Group (MIG) is a Southeast-based mortgage lender established in 1989 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company provides diverse home financing solutions including conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, and THDA loans, as well as refinancing and specialized loan programs for homebuyers across multiple states.

Industry
Mortgage Lending & Residential Finance
Address
8320 E Walker Springs Ln Ste 200, Knoxville, Tennessee 37923, United States
Founded
1989

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 1.5 TB containing regulated financial data (loan records, contracts), employee PII, and customer personal information at scale from a financial services firm.

Black Basta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 1.5 TB of data from MIG, including financial records, accounting data, loan contracts, employee personal documents, and customer PII and loan documentation. The group has published the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Financial records and accounting data
  • Loan contracts and loan documentation
  • Employee personal documents and home folders
  • Customer PII and personal information
  • Client forms and confidential records

What the group claims

Mortgage Investors Group (MIG) is a prominent mortgage lender based in the Southeast United States, specifically established in 1989 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company specializes in providing a variety of home financing solutions, including conventional and government-backed loans, aimed at making homeownership accessible and enjoyable for its clients.SITE: www.migonline.comADDRESS: 8320 E Walker Springs Ln Ste 200 Knoxville, Tennessee, 37923 United StatesTEL#: (865) 691-7714ALL DATA SIZE: ≈1.5tb+ 1. Financial data, Accounting 2. Contracts, Loans data 3. Home folders, Personal employees and clients documents 4. Personal clients(customers) data and documents 5. Personal forms 6. 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

  • January 11, 2025migonline.com listed by Black Bastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
1.5 TB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, migonline.com is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Black Basta means migonline.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 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.