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westbankcorp.com

Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

500 GB
Data size
2. Users records
18m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 4, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Blackbasta
Status
Data leaked
Country
Canada
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Dec 4, 2024
Data size
500 GB
Records
2. Users

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Westbank Corp is Canada's leading luxury residential and mixed-use real estate development company, founded in 1992. Based in Vancouver, they specialize in high-end residential, retail, and commercial projects across North America and internationally, with a focus on sustainable urban development and architectural excellence.

Industry
Luxury Real Estate Development & Mixed-Use Urban Development
Address
Suite 601 - 1067 West Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1C7, Canada
Founded
1992

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of 500 GB of data including financial records, payroll, customer information, and confidential contracts. Large-scale disclosure of regulated business and personal data from a major real estate firm poses significant risk to employees, customers, and business operations.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of company data including financial records, HR/payroll information, customer data, contracts, NDAs, and confidential project files. The group has published the data, indicating both encryption and exfiltration occurred.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Financial records
  • HR and payroll data
  • Tax documents
  • Employee personal folders
  • Customer data
  • Contracts and NDAs
  • Project files and confidential data

What the group claims

Westbank Corp is a leading mixed-use real estate development company based in North America. Westbank Corp, founded in 1992, is dedicated to city building and the creation of beauty through their real estate developments. They specialize in residential and mixed-use projects, with a focus on sustainable urban development.SITE: www.westbankcorp.com Address : Suite 601 - 1067 West Cordova St. Vancouver, BC V6C 1C7 CanadaTEL#: 604-685-8986ALL DATA SIZE: ≈500gb 1. Company data: Financial, HR, Payroll, Tax… 2. Users personal folders and documents 3. Customers data 4. Contracts, NDA’s, Confidential data 5. Projects & etc…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About blackbasta

Black Basta is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in April 2022 and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor, compromising over 500 organizations globally within its first two years of operation. The group is suspected to have ties to Russia-based cybercriminal networks and operates as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiates with victims. Black Basta primarily gains initial access through phishing campaigns, exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, then deploys custom tools and living-off-the-land techniques to move laterally through networks before deploying their ransomware payload that uses ChaCha20 encryption. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. Notable campaigns include attacks on major manufacturing companies, healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure entities primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Italy, with the group showing particular focus on business services, manufacturing, technology, agriculture and food production, and transportation/logistics sectors. As of 2024, Black Basta remains active and continues to evolve its tactics, techniques, and procedures while maintaining a steady pace of victim recruitment and ransom collection operations. 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

  • December 4, 2024westbankcorp.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site
Data size
500 GB
Records
2. Users

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 Financial sector, which has 333 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, westbankcorp.com is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means westbankcorp.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.
  • 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.