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National Salvage

Claimed by Storm · listed 3 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 27, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Storm
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Aug 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

National Salvage is a treated wood recycler with over 40 years of experience, specializing in wood recycling, rail services, and environmental services including track demolition, bridge demolition, and asbestos abatement. The company operates from Bloomington, Indiana and serves clients seeking sustainable recycling solutions.

Industry
Wood & Rail Recycling; Environmental Services
Address
6755 S Old State Road 37, Bloomington, IN 47403, United States
Employees
201-500

Attack summary

Severity: low — Data has been published but the leak post contains only a generic company description with no specific data types disclosed, no proof files referenced, and no operational impact stated. Disclosure appears to be listing/announcement only.

The Storm group claims to have attacked National Salvage and published data from the incident. No specific details on encryption, exfiltration method, or data categories are provided in the leak post.

low

What the group claims

National Salvage is a leading treated wood recycler specializing in wood recycling, rail services, and environmental services. With over 40 years of experience, they offer services such as track demolition, bridge demolition, and asbestos abatement. Their product range includes used railroad ties, recycled rail, utility poles, and railroad tie fuel. The company primarily serves clients in need of sustainable solutions for wood and rail recycling. The company headquarters is located in 6755 S Old State Road 37, Bloomington, IN 47403, United States. 201-500 Employees

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 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 41 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post August 27, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 27, 2026National Salvage listed by Stormon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 41 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Storm dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,692 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, National Salvage is reported in United States, a country with 3,164 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means National Salvage 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.