Costa Solutions LLC
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Full breach record for Costa Solutions LLC →2 incidents on fileThreat-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
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[warehouse] Costa Solutions, LLC — a privately held managed-labor and warehousing company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with ~$140M annual revenue and 200–1,000 employees. The file server contained the complete operational, financial, legal, and human resources infrastructure of the company: 3,000–8,000+ individuals' personal data — current employees, former employees (12 years of records), independent contractors, employee dependents, and job applicants. SSNs on W-2s, W-4s, 1099s, I-9s, background checks. Bank account and routing numbers on 200+ direct deposit forms. Medical and injury records — 150+ employee injury/medical files from 2013–2026, FMLA medical certifications, drug test results (random, reasonable suspicion, post-incident, promotional), and workers' compensation claims for 23+ named individuals. CEO's entire file system — Josh Wean's Documents folder (5.3 GB) including P&L statements, a 17-subfolder "Confidential" directory, legal correspondence, strategic plans, a C-12 peer advisory group archive, and a $RECYCLE.BIN with 60+ deleted items. Client contracts and competitive intelligence — pricing, SLAs, and contract terms for HEB, CVS, Sysco, Amazon, McLane, Labatt, Valvoline. Competitor pricing intelligence. RFP bid documents with cost models. Active legal case files — litigation records (2021–2022), HR internal investigation notes (2018–2021), arbitration files, active investigations marked "DO NOT DELETE" — all subject to attorney-client privilege. Infrastructure secrets — an HEB production server TLS certificate, a Cisco AnyConnect VPN installer, and the CEO's Remote Desktop connection file. Corporate financials — multi-year budgets, valuation & sale documents (indicating possible M&A activity), PPP loan forgiveness records, Form 5500 ERISA filings, and annual reporting.
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Breach window unknown
Apr 29, 2026
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- Indiana State AGbd_4524a69420ca82db2026-09-09 · +133dVerified
- New Hampshire State AGbd_ae8b9cf133f9f2902026-09-09 · +133dVerified by operator
Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states
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aurora
According to ransomware.live, Aurora is a ransomware group associated with a multi-purpose Go-based malware distributed by multiple criminal teams from mid-2022, also sold as an infostealer/botnet under the same name on underground forums.