Startec Group of Companies
auroraThis record tracks a ransomware attack claimed by the aurora group against Startec Group of Companies. It collects the publicly disclosed attack details — sector, location and timeline — as published on the operator's leak site and indexed by Breach House.
Window Zero
EXPOSURE GAPWindow Zero is the time the breach stayed in the open before anyone said so — the gap between when the attack was first discovered on the operator's leak site (t1) and when it was publicly disclosed (t2). The wider this window, the longer victims, staff and customers were exposed with no warning.
Attack Summary
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)
Leak Screenshots
SAMPLEProof-of-breach screenshots the operator posted from the stolen data. Previews are redacted and locked — the originals are available on HaveIBeenRansom.