About Brainhunter Companies LLC. and Brainhunter Systems Ltd
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Full breach record for About Brainhunter Companies LLC. and Brainhunter Systems Ltd →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Dark Project on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
About Brainhunter Companies LLC. and Brainhunter Systems Ltd. Founded in 1995, Brainhunter is an employment agency providing staffing and recruiting services to engineers, information technology, healthcare, and industrial sectors. Brainhunter also offers workplace management products, solutions and consulting, payroll and compliance services, and more. Brainhunter is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. As a result of the attack on Brainhunter, more than 160 GB of the company's confidential data was stolen, including banking and financial documents, as well as the personal data of employees and customers. At this time, approximately 320,000 files remain unprotected by Brainhunter Foundation.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Aug 3, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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Compliance clock
Not assessable
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
Source ceiling
- actor name
- victim claim
- ransom/leak status
- discovery date
- materiality
- notification
- affected count
- confirmed data types
- compliance clock
The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.