Was hamptonsecurities.com hit by ransomware?

hamptonsecurities.com was listed by the blackbasta ransomware operation (Canada), 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 blackbasta ransomware group?

blackbasta 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 hamptonsecurities.com breach?

blackbasta published data attributed to hamptonsecurities.com (~500 GB), around 1. Employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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hamptonsecurities.com

Claimed by Blackbasta · listed 2 years ago

500 GB

Data size

1. Employees records

18m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 4, 2024
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: 1. Employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hampton Securities is a full-service boutique investment platform founded in 1996, based in Toronto, Canada. The firm provides wealth management, capital markets services, institutional sales and trading, and insurance/estate planning solutions to retail and institutional clients. It is a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization.

Industry: Investment Banking & Wealth Management
Address: 141 Adelaide Street W., Suite 1800 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5 Canada
Founded: 1996

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 500 GB including customer PII, financial records, and sensitive business data from a regulated financial services firm. Scale and nature of data (personal documents, financial information) involving retail and institutional clients presents significant regulatory and privacy breach impact.

BlackBasta claims to have exfiltrated approximately 500 GB of data from Hampton Securities, including employee and customer personal documents, financial data, NDAs, and confidential business information.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal documents
Customer personal documents
Financial data
NDAs
Confidential business data

What the group claims

Founded in 1996, Hampton continues to be one of Canada’s leading full-service boutique investment platforms, delivering both wealth management and capital markets services. Our team of advisors, bankers, insurance professionals, and associates prides itself on providing bespoke investment solutions and tailored service to both our retail and institutional clients. Coupled with our all encompassing, individualized, insurance and estate planning solutions, you can rest assured knowing the full scope of your finances, business, legacy, and succession are well positioned for whatever the future may hold.SITE: www.hamptonsecurities.com Address : 141 Adelaide Street W., Suite 1800 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3L5 CanadaTEL#: (416) 862-7800ALL DATA SIZE: ≈500gb 1. Employees, customers personal documents 2. Financial data 3. NDA’s, Confidential data & etc…

Sources

Victim sitehamptonsecurities.com
Leak posthttp://stniiomyjliimcgkvdszvgen3eaaoz55hreqqx6o77yvmpwt7gklffqd.onion/?id=hamptonsecurities.com

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, 2024hamptonsecurities.com listed by blackbastaon the group's public leak site

Data size: 500 GB
Records: 1. Employees

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, hamptonsecurities.com is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blackbasta means hamptonsecurities.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.