Aurora Claims Theft of 1.1 TB From Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze
Summary
Aurora claims it exfiltrated 1.1 TB from Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze, including HR, payroll, engineering, and banking-related files across five sites. The monitoring post says the claim is unconfirmed.
Key points
- Aurora claims it exfiltrated about 1.1 TB from Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze across five manufacturing sites.
- The post attributes the claim to Aurora's leak-site blog and says the information has not been confirmed.
- The claimed data includes HR, payroll, personal tax, and salary records from sites in Moldova and Ukraine.
- The post claims the Tunisia site data included passport copies, email archives, quality files, and finance information.
- The alleged Slovakia data included Citibank corporate banking infrastructure, authentication-related material, IBAN registries, and salary-payment files.
- The post describes a dataset containing Excel files, PDFs, CAD drawings, Outlook messages, and quality records.
Article Details
- Victim
- Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze
- Encryption Status
- Unknown; the source does not report whether data was encrypted.
- Exfiltration Status
- Aurora claims data was exfiltrated; the source states the claim is unconfirmed.
- Exfiltrated Data
- The claim describes HR, payroll, personal tax, engineering, quality, finance, banking, and email records across manufacturing sites. The source does not confirm the data's authenticity.
- Exfiltrated Size
- Aurora claimed approximately 1.1 terabytes.
- Leak Status
- Aurora's claim was reported with a link to its blog; the source does not confirm that data was published or verify its authenticity.
Threat Actors
Countries
GermanyThe dataset included sensitive banking material such as Citibank corporate authentication systems and related operational records, impacting Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, and SlovakiaMoldovaThe dataset included sensitive banking material such as Citibank corporate authentication systems and related operational records, impacting Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, and SlovakiaSlovakiaThe dataset included sensitive banking material such as Citibank corporate authentication systems and related operational records, impacting Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, and SlovakiaTunisiaThe dataset included sensitive banking material such as Citibank corporate authentication systems and related operational records, impacting Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, and SlovakiaUkraineThe dataset included sensitive banking material such as Citibank corporate authentication systems and related operational records, impacting Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Slovakia