Ransomware group aurora hits Aerospace & Advanced Composites GmbH

*** (AAC) — an Austrian space-materials R&D company headquartered in Wiener Neustadt, with deep ties to the European Space Agency. Obtained two complete NAS snapshots spanning 30+ years of operations: aacdata (31 December 2022) — 123 GB: the complete Testhouse, R&D, and engineering share, including the ESA thermal vacuum test archive, polymer composites formulations, and 22 Outlook PST email backups. aacdata1 (14 January 2025) — 86 GB: the administrative share, including managing director's full PC backup (browser credentials, passport scans), 15 years of financial statements, shareholder agreements, and the IT credentials master spreadsheet. BMD_DATA — 34 MB: the complete BMD business software accounting database with employee payroll, SEPA payments, and VAT declarations. done/ — Bitlocker recovery keys for 12 endpoints and WMI system dumps. The exposed material includes: 4 passport scans, 1 social security number, 25 employees' complete HR files, 50–100+ job applicant CVs — the full identity-theft toolkit for the workforce plus third-party data subjects. The IT credentials master spreadsheet (AAC CODES.xlsx) containing every system password, plus browser-stored logins for ESA SSO, the company's IT provider, and industrial suppliers. 12 Bitlocker recovery keys enabling full-disk decryption of 6 company laptops. 123 GB of ESA thermal vacuum test data — 30+ years of space-grade materials testing that represents the company's core competitive advantage and cannot be recreated. 137 executed NDAs with partners including Airbus, RUAG, Safran, Thales, ESA, BMW, Tesla, Google, Samsung SDI, CERN, DLR, and 126 others. 15 years of annual financial statements, bank records, insurance policies, and shareholder agreements — the company's entire financial anatomy laid bare.

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