Kochs GmbH
bd_dd0328ada78b2d7d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Kochs GmbH →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
[manufacturer] *** — a family-owned German manufacturer of windows, doors, and aluminium façade systems headquartered in Herzogenrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen, with ~240 employees across Germany, the Netherlands, and Hungary. The exposed material includes: 22 GB of payroll database backups (7 MSSQL .bak files, 2016–2023) — every employee's salary, bank IBAN, tax class, social insurance number, pension contributions, and wage garnishments. 2.3 GB of DATEV payroll records (through May 2026) — individual named salary documents, garnishment data, company car records for all three entities. 7 Active Directory passwords in plaintext batch scripts — including both Managing Directors, with one MD's credentials spanning three separate AD domains. 28+ proprietary application source code repositories — WinPro ERP, Apertum CRM, MES integrations, production viewers, time-tracking, and rack-management systems. Each one hardcodes its database credentials. SSL/TLS private keys for kochs.de (2021–2026) — enabling domain impersonation and man-in-the-middle attacks. 77 VPN pre-shared keys from the LANCOM gateway configuration — the complete remote-access roster since 2018. Managing Director's MRI and X-ray scans — brain and spine medical imaging, GDPR Art. 9 special category health data. 16 named employee disciplinary records, 11 driver's license scans, attorney-client privileged litigation files from two active employment lawsuits. Complete financial records — 2024 annual accounts, P&L, balance sheets, SFirm banking database, Syska ProFI general ledger, cost accounting through December 2024.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/id/S29jaHMgR21iSEBhdXJvcmE=
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 22, 2026
- Raw hash
- 9b5413c09681541fcbb71562088f4fb6ac6f125fc97404f95df7c1079cea67f6
Reporting entity
- Name
- aurora
Victim entity
- Name
- Kochs GmbHnorm: kochs
- Industry
- Manufacturingllm
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.