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Bayou Title, Inc.

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 3 months ago

33 GB
Data size
70000-100000+ SSNs records
2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Real Estate / Title Insurance
Listed on leak site
Jun 6, 2026
Data size
33 GB
Records
70000-100000+ SSNs

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bayou Title, Inc. is a title insurance company operating in the real estate sector in the United States. Limited public information is available about the company's specific operations or scale.

Industry
Real Estate / Title Insurance

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data exfiltration confirmed (33 GB) and published, but the leak post provides no specifics about the actual contents, sensitivity level, or type of data taken from Bayou Title. The generic title-insurance sector involves handling of real estate documents and PII, which would typically be sensitive, but without documented proof of specific data types, severity cannot be elevated to 'high' or 'critical'.

The AUR0RA group claims to have exfiltrated 33 GB of data from Bayou Title, Inc. The leak post does not provide specific details about what data was targeted or compromised from this particular victim.

medium

What the group claims

The largest title insurance agent and closing/settlement services provider in Louisiana, with 19 full-service locations statewide. Exfiltrated data spans 20+ years of operations (2004–2026).

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ NorthWest Handling Systems — a 55-year-old forklift and warehouse equipment company headquartered in Renton, Washington, with branches across WA, OR, and AK. The dump is the entire corporate file share going back to 1988. 337,000+ files spanning every branch, every department, every era of the company. It includes: Plaintext credit card numbers in an Excel spreadsheet literally titled “C.O.D. info (CREDIT CARD INFO).xlsx” — stored at the root of the file server, unencrypted, for years. Social Security numbers and Taxpayer IDs on W-9 forms and certified payroll documents for government-contract work (USPS, Oregon DHS, public schools). 3+ years of plaintext passwords for Target Corporation’s vendor portal (TARS), stored in Word documents titled “TARGET PASSWORD & SECURITY QUESTIONS.” Each password rotation was saved as a new file. Home Depot Maximo DC billing credentials — plaintext, in a Word document, enabling fraudulent invoicing against a Fortune 50 company. Albertsons/Safeway Corrigo facility-management portal credentials — again, plaintext in a .docx file. 33 GB of customer warehouse CAD files — facility layouts, equipment placement, security-zone dimensions, and fire-protect…

Data the group says was taken

  • Social Security numbers
  • names
  • addresses
  • sale proceeds
  • 1099-S real-estate closing worksheets
  • W-2 filings
  • 1099-MISC filings
  • employee payroll databases
  • Sage 50 EMPLOYEE.DAT files
  • bank account data

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Bayou Title, Inc.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About AUR0RA

AUR0RA is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least five known victims across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Given the recency of the group's emergence and the limited number of confirmed victims, detailed public attribution from major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, the FBI, or Mandiant has not yet been established, and as such claims regarding origin, affiliation, or operational infrastructure cannot be responsibly made at this time. The group's targeting pattern suggests a deliberate focus on mid-market industries including commercial interiors, real estate and title insurance, warehousing and material handling, manufacturing, and oil and gas and industrial manufacturing sectors, which may indicate an opportunistic selection strategy or a preference for organizations with potentially sensitive operational or financial data and limited cybersecurity maturity. No specific attack methodology, tooling, or extortion tactics have been publicly documented by reputable sources for this group as of the time of this writing, though the sector targeting profile is consistent with groups known to conduct double extortion operations. AUR0RA should be considered an emerging threat actor under active monitoring, with its current operational status assessed as active based on the recency of first observed activity and the absence of any publicly reported law enforcement disruption or disbandment. The group has been linked to 10 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post August 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 6, 2026Bayou Title, Inc. listed by AUR0RAon the group's public leak site
Data size
33 GB
Records
70000-100000+ SSNs

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 10 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full AUR0RA dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Real Estate / Title Insurance sector. Geographically, Bayou Title, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Bayou Title, 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 AUR0RA'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.