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The Buckner Company, Inc.

bd_fa938746f1aa131c · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 13, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Buckner Company, 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.

Group activity: OtherDiscovered: 2026-10-13

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

[insurance] The Buckner Company, Inc. is a commercial property & casualty insurance brokerage headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a second office in Denver, Colorado. The exfiltrated dataset includes: 1,500+ plaintext credentials — Chrome, Edge, and Google password exports from 8+ employees, plus 20+ password spreadsheets. Verified: kbennett’s file alone contains 503 entries covering Hartford, Travelers, Chubb, Progressive, Sedgwick, mortgage portals, banking, and personal accounts. Employee SSNs for 150–250 individuals — W-2 reports across three entities (TBC, TBI, COL) spanning four tax years (2019–2022), plus 2023 W-2 and 1099-NEC reports. 316 individual Total Compensation PDFs and 3+ years of Paycom payroll rate history — every employee’s salary, bonus, and benefits laid bare. A complete M&A acquisition pipeline — 60+ prospect folders with due diligence, LOIs, valuations, and the full BroadStreet Partners closing package (52 exhibits including Disclosure Schedules, MIPA, corporate structure documents). 128 Outlook PST email archives spanning years of business correspondence. Corporate tax returns for Buckner (2004–2024), Citrus Insurance LLC (2021–2023), and Consolidated Agencies (2022–2023). 7 named individuals’ driver license scans and the Applied Epic insurance management database (Epic.mdf).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 13, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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.

About this groupFirst seen 2026-04-17

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.

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