The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards in the United States, has allegedly been compromised by a threat actor. A recent post on a hacker forum claims to offer a massive 3.6 terabyte archive of raw and classified data purportedly extracted directly from an ANSI internal vault.
According to the actor, the allegedly compromised data includes:
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Over 25,200 active, archived, and committee draft ANSI documents (spanning the 2023–2026 range).
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Unpublished and rejected drafts pulled directly from Standards Development Organization (SDO) portals.
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Full technical committee (TC/SC) records, including member comments, internal chats, email threads, and confidential meeting minutes.
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Complete document revision histories and change tracking logs containing rationales and explanations.
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An internal metadata database revealing hidden web store pricing, bulk deal structures, and restricted access levels.
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Documents overlapping with ASTM, ISO, NIST, and SAE, including internal notes regarding technical alterations.
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High-quality scans of historical files (pre-1995) and XML/structured extracts from legacy systems.
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Restricted access logs and backend technical data, including user query logs.
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