Was Total Air Solutions hit by ransomware?

Total Air Solutions was listed by the ALPHV/BlackCat 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 ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group?

ALPHV/BlackCat 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 Total Air Solutions breach?

ALPHV/BlackCat published data attributed to Total Air Solutions (~250 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Total Air Solutions

Claimed by ALPHV/BlackCat · listed 2 years ago

250 GB

Data size

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 23, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ALPHV/BlackCat
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jan 23, 2024
Data size: 250 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Total Air Solutions is a residential and commercial HVAC service provider operating across central Florida, including Tampa, North Port, Bradenton, and surrounding areas. They offer air conditioning installation, repair, maintenance, heating systems, boilers, building automation, and specialized services for medical facilities, schools, and government buildings.

Industry: HVAC Services & Mechanical Contracting
Address: North Port, Tampa, Bradenton, Town 'n' Country, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Englewood, Florida, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 250 GB containing financial data, employee personal information, customer/vendor contacts, and sensitive operational/engineering documents. Scale and diversity of stolen data types indicates significant business and personal information exposure.

The ALPHV ransomware group claims to have breached Total Air Solutions' network and exfiltrated over 250 GB of data. The stolen data includes financial records, project documentation, blueprints, engineering files, contracts, vendor/customer contacts, and employee personal information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

financial data
projects data
projects closeouts
blueprints
engineering documents
personal documents
contracts and subcontracts
vendor contacts
customer contacts
employee personal data

What the group claims

Total Air Solutions provides residential and commercial HVAC services throughout North Port, Tampa, and Bradenton. The network of this company has been breached by our organisation. As a result over 250GB of data leaked from there. Stolen data contains but not limited with the following data related to Total Air Solutions: -financial data -projects data -projects closeouts -blueprints -engineering -personal documents -contracts and subcontracts -vendor and customers contacts -employee personal data

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About ALPHV/BlackCat

ALPHV, also known as BlackCat or Noberus, is a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in November 2021 and quickly became one of the most prolific ransomware groups globally, driven by financial motivations and responsible for compromising over 930 victims worldwide. The group is believed to be operated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals and represents an evolution of the BlackMatter ransomware operation, operating under a RaaS model that recruits experienced affiliates from other disbanded ransomware groups. ALPHV employs a multi-faceted attack methodology utilizing various initial access vectors including compromised Remote Desktop Protocol credentials, phishing campaigns, and exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, followed by deployment of their Rust-based ransomware payload that supports both Windows and Linux environments, while consistently employing double extortion tactics that involve data theft prior to encryption and threats to publish stolen information on their leak site. Notable campaigns include high-profile attacks against critical infrastructure and major corporations across healthcare, finance, and energy sectors, with the group demanding ransoms ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, prompting the FBI and CISA to issue multiple advisories warning of their targeting of critical infrastructure organizations. As of early 2024, ALPHV remains active despite ongoing law enforcement efforts, continuing to evolve their tactics and maintain their position as one of the most significant ransomware threats globally. The group has been linked to 1,662 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post March 3, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: ALPHV, BlackCat, Noberus.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 23, 2024Total Air Solutions listed by ALPHV/BlackCaton the group's public leak site

Data size: 250 GB

Other recent disclosures by ALPHV/BlackCat

ALPHV/BlackCat has been linked to 1,662 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 Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Total Air Solutions is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ALPHV/BlackCat means Total Air Solutions 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 ALPHV/BlackCat'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.