Startec Group of Companies
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Full breach record for Startec Group of Companies →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
Startec Group of Companies, a privately held Calgary-based industrial OEM founded in 1976 by Joe Cawthorn. Startec designs, fabricates, installs, and services compression, process, and refrigeration systems for oil-and-gas operators and the energy-transition sector (RNG, hydrogen, CO&sub2; sequestration, flare-gas capture). The company employs ~270 people and exports ~80% of its cleantech output to US customers including Pembina, ARC Resources, SemCAMS, Cenovus, and Shell. The exposed material spans the entire corporate knowledge base: 25 years of payroll (2001–2026) including a master SIN VERIFICATION.xlsx register, ADP exports, T4/ROE/T2200 forms, banking/EFT direct-deposit data for ~600+ current and former employees 18+ named passport scans plus a Pakistan resume-and-passport applicant pool (~20+) Wildcard TLS private keys for *.startec.ca (2022–2027 series) and the suspected Active-Directory-integrated internal CA private key The cyber-insurance policy (BZA2151) and the Nov 2025 Statement of Values & Business-Interruption submission to Zurich ~25+ named customer engineering libraries (Pembina, ARC, SemCAMS, Cenovus, Shell Scotford) with process specs, as-built drawings, and sizing calculations Shell Caroline + Shell Saturn dispute-counsel files (~665 MB of privileged litigation material) 12 fiscal years of board packs including “in camera” sessions, the 2020 Valuation Report, family-trust T3 returns, and succession-planning documents Cawthorn family QuickBooks files (live .QBW — full chart of accounts, general ledger, every transaction) 11 Outlook PST mailboxes (several multi-GB — named ex-employees' complete email history) Physical-security access codes (CCTV passwords, Telsco alarm chart, all-doors key record)
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/U3RhcnRlYyBHcm91cCBvZiBDb21wYW5pZXNAYXVyb3Jh
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 23, 2026
- Raw hash
- b946f808d084f865cc55bd05ec0b4bb6e5705cac8db4ffb88537746c2f3ce41b
Reporting entity
- Name
- aurora
Victim entity
- Name
- Startec Group of Companiesnorm: startec group of companies
- Industry
- Professional Servicesllm
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.