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Infomedia A/S

Claimed by AUR0RA · listed 2 hours ago

30 GB of Finance data plus additional materials
Data size
100+ employee salary records records
Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedOct 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
AUR0RA
Status
Data leaked
Country
Denmark
Sector
Media
Listed on leak site
Oct 11, 2026
Data size
30 GB of Finance data plus additional materials
Records
100+ employee salary records

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Infomedia A/S is Denmark's premier media monitoring company, co-owned by JP/Politikens Hus and Berlingske Media. It monitors newspapers, broadcasts, and digital sources for hundreds of corporate and government clients across the Nordic region, including the EU Parliament, A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and major Nordic media groups.

Industry
Media Monitoring & Intelligence

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of sensitive regulated data including employee PII at scale (100+ salary records, identity records), complete financial records, banking data, and infrastructure credentials (database/API keys). Exposure of credentials and keys enables further compromise of active systems.

AUR0RA claims to have exfiltrated 30 GB of finance data plus additional sensitive materials. The leaked data includes SQL Server credentials, API private keys, employee salary records (100+ staff across Denmark and Estonia), financial statements, bank records, vendor contracts, and tax certificates.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • SQL Server sysadmin credentials
  • API private key (TLS)
  • Employee salary records (100+ staff, 2009–2024)
  • Financial statements and balance sheets
  • Bank payment records (Danske Bank)
  • Vendor contracts
  • Tax certificates
  • Insurance policies

What the group claims

Denmark's premier media monitoring company, co-owned by JP/Politikens Hus and Berlingske Media. Monitors newspapers, broadcasts, and digital sources for hundreds of corporate and government clients including the EU Parliament, A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and major Nordic media groups.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
[ Infomedia A/S — Denmark's premier media monitoring company, co-owned by the country's two largest media conglomerates (JP/Politikens Hus and Berlingske Media). Infomedia sits at the heart of Nordic media. It monitors newspapers, broadcasts, and digital sources for hundreds of corporate and government clients — including the EU Parliament, A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and major Nordic media groups (Schibsted, Polaris, NRK, Amedia). The exposed material spans: <redacted> <redacted> SQL Server sysadmin credentials — sa / ballmer for the Opoint CRM database at crmdb.opoint.com. An RSA private key — the TLS key for the Infomedia Export Data API service. Named salary specifications for 100+ employees across Denmark (2010–2018) and Estonia (2009–2024). 30 GB of Finance data — income statements, balance sheets, insurance policies, Danske Bank payment records, vendor contracts, tax certificates. <redacted> <redacted> ](http://u6lieui2dakbctcjea2bz4r4q32r7t36nwljovqbv7mxs6o2smgxixid.onion/blog/infomedia-as-9c5b3698)### [Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. Thomas Y. Pickett & Co., Inc. — founded in 1926, headquartered in Addison/Dallas, Texas — is one of the oldest property tax appraisal consulting firms i…

Data the group says was taken

  • SQL Server sysadmin credentials
  • RSA/TLS private key
  • salary specifications
  • finance data
  • income statements
  • balance sheets
  • insurance policies
  • bank payment records
  • vendor contracts
  • tax certificates

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Infomedia A/S

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 hours 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 27 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 6, 2026; most recent post October 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • October 11, 2026Infomedia A/S listed by AUR0RA on the group's public leak site
Data size
30 GB of Finance data plus additional materials
Records
100+ employee salary records

Other recent disclosures by AUR0RA

AUR0RA has been linked to 27 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 Media sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Infomedia A/S is reported in Denmark, a country with 25 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by AUR0RA means Infomedia A/S 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, CFCS (Denmark), 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.