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Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc.

Claimed by Aurora · listed 22 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Oct 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. is a property tax appraisal consulting firm founded in 1926, headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas. They specialize in appraising mineral, industrial, and utility properties for county appraisal districts across multiple states including Texas, Wyoming, North Dakota, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, with approximately 40 employees and ~$5.3M annual revenue.

Industry
Property Tax Appraisal Consulting
Address
Addison/Dallas, Texas, US
Employees
40
Founded
1926

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII at scale (40+ employees' SSNs, medical records, financial data), proprietary source code, client contracts with competitive intelligence value, and cryptographic signing keys enabling document forgery. Includes evidence of prior fraud and exposed credentials.

Aurora claims to have exfiltrated 13 SQL Server database backups (127 GB), complete HR records for all 40+ employees, 11 GB of Azure DevOps source code repositories, 200+ client contracts, 10-year financial records, developer credentials, and a private digital signing certificate. The group alleges the TYPortal database contains property owner records and user credentials, and that financial records include evidence of a prior fraud incident.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL Server database backups (127 GB)
  • TYPortal web portal database (102 GB) with property owner records and user credentials
  • HR records: Social Security cards, W-4s, direct deposit forms, salary schedules, medical records, termination documents, TWC hearing notices
  • Azure DevOps repository with complete source code history and proprietary COBOL program (NOTICE14)
  • 200+ client contracts with county appraisal district pricing
  • Complete financial records: bank statements (PNC and Frost), 10-year budget, accounts receivable, payroll
  • Developer password in directory listing
  • PKCS#12 digital signing certificate with private key (HR manager)

What the group claims

[consulting] Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. — founded in 1926, headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas — is one of the oldest property tax appraisal consulting firms in the United States. They appraise mineral, industrial, and utility properties for county appraisal districts across Texas, Wyoming, North Dakota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and beyond. Roughly 40 employees, ~$5.3M annual revenue, nearly a century of reputation. Inventory: 13 SQL Server database backups (127 GB) including the 102 GB TYPortal web portal database containing all property owner records and user credentials Complete HR records for all 40+ employees — Social Security cards, W-4s, direct deposit forms, salary schedules, medical records, termination documents, TWC hearing notices 11 GB Azure DevOps repository — the entire source code history, including a 6,105-line proprietary COBOL program (NOTICE14) that generates tax appraisal notices 200+ client contracts with pricing for every county appraisal district they serve — the competitive intelligence gold mine Complete financial records — bank statements (PNC and Frost), 10-year budget, accounts receivable, payroll, and evidence of a prior fraud incident in May 2025 A developer's password exposed in a directory name visible to anyone who looks at the file listing A PKCS#12 digital signing certificate (private key) for an HR manager — enabling document forgery

Sources

Source

Indexed 22 hours ago

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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 43 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post October 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 5, 2026Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. listed by aurora on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 43 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full aurora dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,175 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., 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.