Abans Group
blacknevasThis record tracks a ransomware attack claimed by the blacknevas group against Abans Group. 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
The Abans Group is a globally diversified organization engaged in Investment Management, Trading, Broking, Gold Refining, Non-Banking Financial Services, Agricultural Trading, Software Development, and Real Estate Development.We are globally diversified organisation engaged in Financial Services, Gold Refining, Jewellery, Commodities Trading, Agricultural Trading and Warehousing, Pharmaceuticals Distribution, Software Development and Real Estate. The group is founded by young entrepreneur - Mr. Abhishek Bansal who leads a global team of over 300 people operating growing businesses from multiple locations including India, United Kingdom, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong kong, Mauritius and Singapore.Our Company represents the financial services arm of the Abans Group. We operate a diversified global financial services business, headquartered in India, providing NBFC services, multi-asset global institutional trading in equities,Since the inception of our Company in 2009-10, we have grown from being a commodities trading company into a diversified multi-asset and multi-national financial services company having varied financial services businesses which are mainly organised under:NBFC Business: We are a Non Banking Financial Company registered with RBI and having a Total Loan Book of ₹ 35,263 lakhs as on March 31, 2021.Our NBFC business is primarily focused on lending to private traders and other small and medium businesses involved in the commodities trading market.Agency Business: We are SEBI registered Stock and Commodity Exchange Brokers with memberships across all the major stock exchanges in India, including BSE, NSE, MSEI, MCX, NCDEX, ICEX and IIEL and further we have memberships in various international exchanges like DGCX (Dubai), LME (London), INE (Shanghai) and DCE (China). We are also a SEBI Registered Portfolio Management company as well as a SEBI Registered Category-I FPI and Category-III AIF. We offer various client-based institutional trading services, wealth management and private client brokerage services, mainly in equity, commodities and foreign exchange.Capital and other Business: Our Capital Business includes our internal treasury operations which manage our excess capital funds. We do so by investing our capital in what we believe to be low / medium risk strategies, maintaining positions in physical as well as exchange traded commodities and other instruments which we can liquidate economically within a specified days based on our strategy of short term or long term holding. We structure our treasury investments to maintain sufficient liquidity in our portfolio to support the capital needs of our other businesses. Further we provide Warehousing Services to commodity market participants.
Leak Screenshots
SAMPLEProof-of-breach screenshots the operator posted from the stolen data. Previews are redacted and locked — the originals are available on HaveIBeenRansom.