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The Buckner Company, Inc.

Claimed by Aurora · listed 6 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 13, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Oct 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Buckner Company, Inc. is a commercial property & casualty insurance brokerage headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a secondary office in Denver, Colorado. The firm operates as a licensed broker managing policies and client relationships across major carriers including Hartford, Travelers, Chubb, and Progressive.

Industry
Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance Brokerage
Address
Salt Lake City, Utah (HQ); Denver, Colorado (secondary office)
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale regulated sensitive data: employee SSNs (150–250 individuals), W-2/1099 forms spanning multiple years, complete payroll and compensation records, plaintext credentials for major insurance carriers and banking portals, driver licenses, and M&A/corporate financial records. Includes PII and financial data at enterprise scale.

Aurora claims exfiltration of a comprehensive dataset including 1,500+ plaintext employee credentials, SSNs for 150–250 individuals spanning multiple tax years, complete payroll and compensation records, an M&A acquisition pipeline with 60+ prospect folders, email archives, corporate tax returns, and insurance management database files. No ransom demand or encryption activity is stated in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 1,500+ plaintext passwords (Chrome, Edge, Google exports)
  • 20+ password spreadsheets
  • Employee SSNs (150–250 individuals)
  • W-2 reports (2019–2023)
  • 1099-NEC reports (2023)
  • 316 Total Compensation PDFs
  • 3+ years payroll rate history (Paycom)
  • M&A acquisition pipeline (60+ prospects, LOIs, valuations)
  • BroadStreet Partners closing documents (52 exhibits)
  • 128 Outlook PST email archives
  • Corporate tax returns (2004–2024)
  • Driver license scans (7 individuals)
  • Applied Epic insurance management database

What the group claims

[insurance] The Buckner Company, Inc. is a commercial property & casualty insurance brokerage headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a second office in Denver, Colorado. The exfiltrated dataset includes: 1,500+ plaintext credentials — Chrome, Edge, and Google password exports from 8+ employees, plus 20+ password spreadsheets. Verified: kbennett’s file alone contains 503 entries covering Hartford, Travelers, Chubb, Progressive, Sedgwick, mortgage portals, banking, and personal accounts. Employee SSNs for 150–250 individuals — W-2 reports across three entities (TBC, TBI, COL) spanning four tax years (2019–2022), plus 2023 W-2 and 1099-NEC reports. 316 individual Total Compensation PDFs and 3+ years of Paycom payroll rate history — every employee’s salary, bonus, and benefits laid bare. A complete M&A acquisition pipeline — 60+ prospect folders with due diligence, LOIs, valuations, and the full BroadStreet Partners closing package (52 exhibits including Disclosure Schedules, MIPA, corporate structure documents). 128 Outlook PST email archives spanning years of business correspondence. Corporate tax returns for Buckner (2004–2024), Citrus Insurance LLC (2021–2023), and Consolidated Agencies (2022–2023). 7 named individuals’ driver license scans and the Applied Epic insurance management database (Epic.mdf).

Sources

Source

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Disclosure context

About aurora

Aurora is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations through targeted attacks across multiple sectors. Given its recent emergence, limited public documentation exists regarding the group's specific country of origin or affiliations with established ransomware operations, though its targeting patterns suggest a professional operation potentially operating as an independent entity rather than a known Ransomware-as-a-Service model. The group has demonstrated a preference for attacking business-critical sectors including business services, consumer services, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services, with documented attacks spanning the United States, Canada, the Maldives, and Great Britain, though specific initial access vectors and technical methodologies remain undocumented by major threat intelligence firms. With only seven known victims documented since April 2026, Aurora represents a relatively small-scale operation compared to established ransomware families, though its cross-sector targeting approach and international victim scope indicate deliberate selection criteria rather than opportunistic attacks. The group remains active as of current reporting, though the limited victim count and recent emergence suggest either a highly selective targeting approach or a nascent operation still developing its operational capabilities. The group has been linked to 45 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post October 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 13, 2026The Buckner Company, Inc. listed by aurora on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 45 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, The Buckner Company, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means The Buckner Company, 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 aurora'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.