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ALS Limited

listed as ALS Global · Claimed by Aurora · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Aurora
Status
Data leaked
Country
Australia
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Jun 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

ALS Limited (ASX:ALQ) is a global testing, inspection, and certification company with AUD 3.19B in revenue and operations across 65+ countries. The company provides analytical testing, laboratory services, and certification across mining, environmental, food, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Industry
Testing, Inspection & Certification (TIC)
Employees
20500

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated special-category personal data (GDPR Art. 9 medical records), at-scale PII (1,018 identity documents, 601 bank account files, 1,986 salary records across 15+ countries), regulated client data (7,327 laboratory results under NDA, 3.7 GB water-testing methods subject to UKAS/DWI oversight), 20+ years of proprietary competitive IP, active credential harvesting infrastructure (291 plaintext passwords, 111 PKI certs with keys, password extraction tool), and imminen

The aurora group claims to have obtained unauthorised access to ALS's IT systems and exfiltrated approximately 400–500 employee home directories, enterprise password vaults, identity documents, financial records, proprietary analytical methods, client laboratory results, and internal research spanning 15 years of competitive intellectual property.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • ~400–500 employee home directories (personal documents, photos, finance files)
  • 1Password enterprise team vault recovery kit (45 KB PDF)
  • 291 plaintext password files (administrator, FTP, portal, system credentials)
  • 1,018 passport and identity document scans (10+ countries)
  • 601 bank account detail files (IBAN, SWIFT, BSB, salary payment records)
  • 1,986 salary, payroll, and compensation files (named individuals, 6+ countries)
  • 453 medical, drug test, and workplace injury records
  • 57 complete Outlook email archives (PST files, years of correspondence)
  • 7,327 client laboratory results (mining assay data, NDA-held certificates of analysis)
  • 20 GB proprietary analytical methods (PFAS, dioxin, glyphosate, acrylamide LC-MS/GC-MS)
  • 7.2 GB internal research reports (68+ formal reports, 15 years, mining/environmental IP)
  • FY2025–2026 innovation roadmap and Nordic business plans
  • 3.7 GB cryptosporidium water-testing methods (UKAS-accredited, DWI-regulated)
  • QuickBooks bookkeeping records, AR aging, stock sale records
  • 111 PKI certificates with private keys (WiFi, TLS, signing)
  • Chrome password extraction tool with source code

What the group claims

[certification, inspection] ALS Limited (ASX:ALQ) — a global testing, inspection, and certification company with AUD 3.19B revenue, 20,500+ employees, and operations in 65+ countries — identified unauthorised access to its IT systems. ~400–500 employee home directories — personal documents, cached credentials, email settings, family photos, personal finance files for employees from Australia to Peru to Sweden to Romania. The company's 1Password team vault emergency recovery kit — a single 45 KB PDF that enables total recovery of every shared credential in ALS's enterprise password vault. 291 plaintext password files including administrator credentials, FTP passwords, portal passwords, and the document control system master password. 1,018 passport and identity document scans — Swedish passports, Mexican passports, Australian passports — each one a 10-year identity-theft enabler. 601 bank account detail files including IBAN, SWIFT routing codes, BSB numbers, and sort codes for employees across 15+ countries, plus Russian-language SWIFT salary payment files. 1,986 salary, payroll, and compensation files — named individuals, exact amounts, pay scales, negotiation records across AU, US, EU, UK, CA, BR, SE, RO. 453 medical, drug test, and workplace injury records — GDPR Art. 9 special category data. 57 complete Outlook email archives (PST files) — years of correspondence, attachments, privileged communications. 7,327 client laboratory results — mining assay data, certificates of analysis, and geochemistry results held under NDA. 20 GB of proprietary analytical method development — ALS's core competitive IP: PFAS, dioxin, acrylamide, glyphosate LC-MS/GC-MS method packages representing years and millions of AUD in R&D. For a TIC company, analytical methods are the product. 7.2 GB of Internal Research reports — 68+ formal research reports (IR153–IR287+) spanning 15 years, including IsaMill grinding R&D, GlyLeach joint-venture process IP (with mutual NDA), flotation, mineralogy, and QEMSCAN data. The FY2025–2026 innovation roadmap — "ALS Environmental Innovation — Priority projects for 2024-25" (10 MB PPTX) and Nordic Innovation Business Plans revealing which methods ALS plans to develop and which markets it plans to enter. 3.7 GB of Cryptosporidium water-testing methods (WA_Crypto) — UKAS-accredited, DWI-regulated detection methods where few UK labs hold accreditation. QuickBooks live bookkeeping, AR aging reports, and stock sale records — taken 12 days before FY26 results announcement. 111 PKI certificates with private keys — corporate WiFi, TLS server certs, personal signing certificates. A compiled Chrome password extraction tool with source code — credential harvesting infrastructure resident on ALS systems.

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 14 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post June 19, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 19, 2026ALS Global listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 14 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, ALS Global is reported in Australia, a country with 185 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means ALS Global 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, ACSC (Australia), 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.