Disclosure context

About pear

The Pear ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in August 2025, operating with primarily financial motivations and targeting victims across multiple countries and sectors. Based on their recent emergence and limited public documentation, specific details about their country of origin and organizational structure remain unclear, though their targeting patterns suggest a financially-driven operation that may operate independently or as part of a smaller ransomware-as-a-service model. With 65 documented victims since their August 2025 debut, the group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Switzerland, with particular focus on healthcare, business services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Their attack methodology and specific technical details have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies, though their rapid victim acquisition suggests they have established effective initial access and encryption capabilities. Notable campaigns and high-profile attacks have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, or major security research organizations, likely due to the group's recent emergence and relatively small scale compared to established ransomware operations. As of late 2025, Pear appears to remain active given their recent emergence and ongoing victim targeting across multiple geographic regions and industry verticals. The group has been linked to 87 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 5, 2025; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 9, 2026Family Psychological Associates listed by pearon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Family Psychological Associates is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Family Psychological Associates

Claimed by pear · listed 1 month ago

41d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 9, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: pear
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Apr 9, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Family Psychological Associates (operating as Kids Count Family Psychological) is a fully licensed outpatient psychiatric clinic based in the US that provides mental health services and treatment for children, adolescents, young adults, geriatric patients, and their families. The organization merged with Kids Count Inc. to form a behavioral health care company offering services including blended case management, residential treatment, peer support, wraparound/BHRS, outpatient, and family-based programs. It employs over 200 clinical and administrative staff.

Industry: Behavioral & Mental Health Services
Employees: 200+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a licensed psychiatric and behavioral health clinic handling highly sensitive mental health records for children, adolescents, and vulnerable populations. Disclosed status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration of regulated medical/mental health data (HIPAA-protected PHI) at scale involving 200+ staff and an unknown number of patients.

The ransomware group 'pear' claims to have attacked Family Psychological Associates and has published data from the organization, indicating exfiltration of sensitive information from a behavioral mental health provider serving vulnerable patient populations.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient mental health records
PII of children and adolescents
Clinical staff records
Administrative records
Patient portal data

What the group claims

Provides mental health services

Sources

Victim sitekcifpa.com
Leak posthttp://pearsmob5sn44ismokiusuld34pnfwi6ctgin3qbvonpoob4lh3rmtqd.onion/Companies/kcifpa

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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