Was The Money Store hit by ransomware?

The Money Store was listed by the Storm ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Storm ransomware group?

Storm is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the The Money Store breach?

Storm published data attributed to The Money Store. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Money Store

Claimed by Storm · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 21, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Sep 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Money Store is a family-owned, privately held mortgage lender founded in 1972, serving homebuyers and homeowners across the United States. Based in Florham Park, New Jersey, the company specializes in home purchase, refinance, construction, renovation, and home equity loans. With 201-500 employees and over 50 years of operation, they operate a nationwide network of mortgage professionals.

Industry: Mortgage Lending & Home Financing
Address: 30B Vreeland Road, Suite 200, Florham Park, NJ 07932, United States
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: low — No operational impact is stated, no proof files or screenshots are advertised, no data exfiltration is claimed or documented in the post, and no encrypted systems or ransom demand is mentioned. This appears to be a listing/announcement only.

The Storm group claims to have conducted an attack on The Money Store. However, the leak post provided contains only company information and background details with no description of the specific attack methodology, data exfiltrated, encryption claims, or proof of compromise.

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What the group claims

The Money Store is a local mortgage lender based in Hamilton, NJ, specializing in home financing solutions. They offer a variety of loan products including home purchase, refinance, construction, renovation, and home equity loans to cater to diverse client needs. Their services are designed for individuals looking to buy, build, renovate, or refinance their homes. The company aims to simplify the home financing journey with a user-friendly application process and dedicated team support. The company headquarters is located in 30B Vreeland Road, Suite 200, Florham Park, NJ 07932, United States. 201-500 Employees

Sources

Victim sitethemoneystore.com
Leak posthttp://yqhecvqtdvq6p7duqcgw2qca77spbgakxcoibtx6zpvfshltsbbbhfqd.onion/company/6ab0e1989f1388101e0e6085

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Storm

Storm is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026, operating with an apparent financial motivation based on its targeting profile, though limited public documentation exists given its recent emergence and relatively small victim footprint. The group has claimed or been attributed to attacks against at least six known victims, with the United States representing its primary target geography. Storm has demonstrated a preference for targeting the healthcare and manufacturing sectors, alongside a broader category of other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than highly specialized targeting philosophy. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, comprehensive technical details regarding its initial access vectors, encryption methodology, tooling, or affiliation with known threat actor ecosystems have not yet been formally documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other major threat intelligence publishers as of the time of this writing. No confirmed RaaS infrastructure, dark web leak site activity, or law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly attributed or reported in open sources. Given its nascent operational timeline beginning in 2026, Storm should be monitored as an emerging threat, particularly within the healthcare sector where ransomware attacks carry significant operational and patient safety implications, but analysts should treat any further characterization beyond the known victim and targeting data with caution pending additional corroborating intelligence. The group has been linked to 64 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post September 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 21, 2026The Money Store listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 64 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Money Store is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means The Money Store appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Storm's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.