Was Jinny Beauty Supply hit by ransomware?

Jinny Beauty Supply was listed by the aurora ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the aurora ransomware group?

aurora is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Jinny Beauty Supply breach?

aurora published data attributed to Jinny Beauty Supply. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Jinny Beauty Supply

Claimed by Aurora · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 7, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Aurora
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Sep 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jinny Beauty Supply is one of the largest Korean-American wholesale beauty distributors in the US, operating 9 distribution centers from Doraville, Georgia to Commerce, California. The company serves 7,400+ beauty supply stores and 2,800+ international distributors.

Industry: Wholesale Beauty Distribution
Employees: 260

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly regulated sensitive data including: payment card data (PCI scope), employee SSNs and tax documents (federal records), customer PII at scale, complete infrastructure credentials enabling full system compromise, and financial account credentials. Multiple compliance violations (PCI-DSS, SOX, state privacy laws).

Aurora claims to have exfiltrated a complete password vault, VMware hypervisor credentials, scanned credit card authorization forms, employee compensation and tax documents, Active Directory enumeration data, and multiple database backups. The group has published evidence of access to financial payment systems, employee PII at scale (SSNs, bank account details), customer payment card data, and complete infrastructure topology.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

50+ plaintext credentials (PayPal, Braintree, Amazon Seller Central, eBay, Acumatica ERP, tax portals, FedEx, UPS, ShipStation, Microsoft 365, Google Analytics, email)
VMware vCenter and ESXi root passwords
911 scanned credit card authorization forms with full card numbers, CVV, expiry, cardholder signatures
Employee compensation database (260 employees, 2015-2018)
340 MB Shopify database backup (customer names, emails, phones, addresses, catalog, pricing)
Active Directory domain enumeration (239+ user accounts, 17 admin accounts, 50+ servers)
Employee W-4 forms (SSNs)
Employee I-9 forms (SSN, DOB, citizenship)
Direct deposit forms (bank account and routing numbers)
3.6 GB SQL Server database backups (e-commerce customer/order/product data, Nov 2019 - Mar 2020)

What the group claims

[distributors] Jinny Beauty Supply is one of the largest Korean-American wholesale beauty distributors in the US, operating 9 distribution centers from Doraville, Georgia to Commerce, California. They serve 7,400+ beauty supply stores and 2,800+ international distributors. The exposed material includes: A complete password vault export — 50+ plaintext credentials for PayPal, Braintree, Amazon Seller Central, eBay, Acumatica ERP (production), 12 state tax portals, FedEx, UPS, ShipStation, Microsoft 365, Google Analytics, and internal email. VMware hypervisor root credentials — vCenter and ESXi root passwords giving complete control over the entire virtual infrastructure. 911 scanned credit card authorization forms — full card numbers, CVV, expiry dates, and cardholder signatures for beauty supply store customers across 26 US states. Complete employee compensation database — ~260 employees with Korean and English names, departments, salaries, bonuses, and 1099 contractor data spanning 2015–2018. A 340 MB Shopify database backup — full customer table (names, emails, phones, addresses), product catalog, pricing, and warehouse assignments. Active Directory domain enumeration — all 239+ user accounts including 17 admin accounts, the complete server topology across 7 geographic sites (50+ servers), and DPAPI-encrypted RDP passwords. Employee tax documents — W-4 forms (SSN), I-9 forms (SSN + DOB + citizenship), direct deposit forms (bank account and routing numbers). 3.6 GB of SQL Server database backups — e-commerce customer/order/product data spanning November 2019 to March 2020.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days 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 39 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2026; most recent post September 7, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 7, 2026Jinny Beauty Supply listed by aurora on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 21 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jinny Beauty Supply is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Jinny Beauty Supply 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.