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St. Theresa Catholic Church

listed as St Theresa Catholic Church · Claimed by Orova · listed 2 days ago

2d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 6, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Orova
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Aug 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

St. Theresa Catholic Church is a parish located in Belleview, Florida, serving the local Catholic community. The church offers sacraments, religious education, youth and adult faith formation, and operates social services including a soup kitchen, food pantry, and thrift shop. It is part of the Diocese structure and participates in the Belleview Area Social Services (BASS) Network.

Industry
Religious Institution
Address
11528 US-301, Belleview, FL 34420

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post provides only a brief announcement with no proof files, screenshots, or specific claims of data exfiltration or encryption. No operational disruption is stated. The post appears to be a listing announcement rather than evidence of a substantive breach.

The Orova group claims to have breached St. Theresa Catholic Church and mentions partnership networks with the Belleview Area Social Services (BASS). No specific operational impact (encryption) or data exfiltration details are disclosed in the provided leak post excerpt.

low

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Parish records
  • Parishioner information
  • Social services client data

What the group claims

Today we have broadened our network and capability to provide services by partnering with other individuals, groups and churches through the Belleview Area Social Services (BASS) Network. BASS works to bring a coordinated approach to providing services to those in need.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Orova

Orova is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparently financially motivated operational focus, having claimed at least 14 known victims across a relatively short period of activity. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or comparable research bodies, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be responsibly constructed from verified open-source reporting at this time. Based on available victimology data, Orova has demonstrated a targeting pattern concentrated primarily in the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, with affected sectors spanning manufacturing, retail and e-commerce, healthcare, agriculture and food production, and other industries, suggesting an opportunistic rather than narrowly specialized targeting approach. The geographic concentration across US and Asia-Pacific regions may warrant further monitoring for potential geopolitical dimensions, though no affiliation with known threat actors or nation-state nexus has been publicly established. Given the group's nascent timeline and the absence of confirmed technical indicators, tools, or intrusion methodologies in reputable public reporting, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as the threat intelligence community develops a more complete picture of Orova's capabilities, infrastructure, and operational patterns. The group has been linked to 35 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 4, 2026; most recent post August 6, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 6, 2026St Theresa Catholic Church listed by Orovaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Orova

Orova has been linked to 35 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, St Theresa Catholic Church is reported in United States, a country with 3,159 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Orova means St Theresa Catholic Church 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 Orova'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.