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Hagerman & Company

Claimed by Aurora · listed 6 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
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Jun 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hagerman & Company is a 40-year-old Autodesk Platinum Partner headquartered in Mt. Zion, Illinois, serving 250+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, energy, defense, healthcare, and education sectors. They develop commercial engineering software products including licensing systems and infrastructure automation tools.

Industry
Engineering Software & CAD Solutions (Autodesk Partner)
Address
Mt. Zion, Illinois, USA
Employees
250+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive regulated data including: (1) trade secrets enabling product piracy; (2) plaintext credentials for critical infrastructure (power generation, LNG, refineries); (3) defense/government data (NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, JPL); (4) medical infrastructure credentials (Beth Israel Deaconess); (5) educational institution access; (6) CI/CD secrets enabling supply-chain attacks. Multiple critical infrastructure entities and government agencies affected.

Aurora claims to have exfiltrated complete proprietary source code for 15+ commercial products, plaintext database credentials including Oracle DBA accounts, engineering vault databases for 14+ critical infrastructure entities (power plants, LNG terminals, refineries), defense/government data (NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, JPL), and third-party credentials for educational and medical institutions.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • proprietary source code (15+ products)
  • HNC Licensing System source code
  • plaintext database credentials (.udl files)
  • Oracle DBA account credentials
  • engineering vault databases
  • NYPA power plant data (7 facilities)
  • LNG terminal configurations
  • petroleum refinery infrastructure data
  • NASA IT security requirements
  • Lockheed Martin configurations
  • Boeing-SVS vault data
  • JPL configurations
  • Azure DevOps transaction logs (1.6 GB)
  • CI/CD deployment secrets
  • university database credentials (3+ institutions)
  • medical center infrastructure data

What the group claims

*** — a 40-year-old Autodesk Platinum Partner headquartered in Mt. Zion, Illinois, serving 250+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, energy, defense, healthcare, and education. The exposed dataset includes: Complete proprietary source code for 15+ commercial products including the HNC Licensing System (License Generator, License Server, License Manager) — enabling unlimited piracy of all Hagerman products. 8+ plaintext database credentials in .udl files, including an Oracle SYS (DBA superuser) account with password "Hagerman@1!" reused across multiple systems. Engineering vault databases for 14+ critical infrastructure entities — NYPA (7 power plants including Niagara Falls), Kinder Morgan (Elba Island LNG terminal), HydroOne (Ontario electricity), Phillips 66, Chevron, and 8+ petroleum refineries. Defense/government data — NASA IT Security Requirements, Lockheed Martin configurations, Boeing-SVS vault data, JPL configurations. Azure DevOps transaction logs (1.6 GB) containing complete source code version history and potentially CI/CD deployment secrets. Third-party database credentials for Michigan State University (3 databases), Cal State Long Beach, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center infrastructure.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 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 15 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, 2026Hagerman & Company listed by auroraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by aurora

aurora has been linked to 15 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.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by aurora means Hagerman & Company 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 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.