Bayou Title, Inc.
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Full breach record for Bayou Title, Inc. →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Aurora 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
[insurance] Bayou Title, Inc. — the largest title insurance agent and closing/settlement services provider in Louisiana, with 19 full-service locations statewide. The exfiltrated data spans 20+ years of operations (2004–2026) and includes: 70,000–100,000+ Social Security numbers paired with names, addresses, and sale proceeds from 1099-S real-estate closing worksheets covering all 19 offices across three tax years (2018–2020), plus W-2 and 1099-MISC filings. Complete employee payroll databases — 10+ instances of Sage 50 EMPLOYEE.DAT files containing SSNs, bank account numbers, routing numbers, pay rates, tax withholding, and direct deposit details for current and former employees. 103 GB of title abstracts — ~34,000+ PDFs documenting ownership chains, liens, and mortgages for properties across Louisiana. 44 GB of GreenFolders DMS transaction packages (2012, 2013, 2019) — complete closing file archives containing HUD-1 settlement statements, identity verification documents, SSN cards, and tax records. Filenames contain encoded tags (ssn, hud, soc, tax). Plaintext credentials for government portals — a file literally named Lafayette Assessors lcmenard Password4321.url, plus a PDF containing Orleans Parish system login credentials. Attorney-client privileged documents — wills, attorney engagement letters, and legal opinions prepared by licensed Louisiana attorneys.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 29, 2026
- Raw hash
- 4d2e7079691c50e0ab95a69cae5ffe46763f3e2b994e7144720f99445a02ee71
Reporting entity
- Name
- aurora
Victim entity
- Name
- Bayou Title, Inc.norm: bayou title
- Domain
- bayoutitle.com
- Industry
- Financial Services
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· aurora
- Threat actor
- AuroraExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.