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About Brainhunter Companies LLC. and Brainhunter Systems Ltd

bd_383d43ac6c09e7a1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Aug 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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.

Group activity: Professional ServicesDiscovered: 2026-08-05

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.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 3, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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.