Was Survival Flight Inc hit by ransomware?

Survival Flight Inc was listed by the worldleaks 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 worldleaks ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Survival Flight Inc breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Survival Flight Inc. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Survival Flight Inc

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 10 months ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 12, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation/Logistics
Listed on leak site: Sep 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Survival Flight Inc. is a premier emergency medical transportation company headquartered in Arkansas, providing 24/7 critical care air and ground transport services across the United States. The company operates Bell Helicopters and Pilatus PC-12 aircraft from bases in Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Their team includes nurses, paramedics, and pilots serving hospitals, EMS agencies, and the public, with a membership program offering covered air ambulance transport.

Industry: Emergency Medical Air & Ground Transportation
Address: Headquartered in Arkansas, United States (exact street address not stated)

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Survival Flight Inc. operates in emergency medical transport and almost certainly holds regulated patient health information (PHI) subject to HIPAA, as well as PII for patients, members, and staff at scale. The data has been published (not merely threatened), and the company's own website acknowledges a data security incident, confirming a real breach of sensitive medical and personal data.

The worldleaks group has published data allegedly exfiltrated from Survival Flight Inc., with the disclosure status marked as 'data_published.' The public-facing website itself includes a 'Notice of Data Security Incident' page, corroborating that a breach occurred; the leaked data likely includes sensitive patient and operational records given the company's medical transport operations.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient medical records
Patient personally identifiable information (PII)
Membership subscriber data
Employee records (nurses, paramedics, pilots)
Operational and flight data
Hospital and EMS agency contact information

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Survival Flight Inc. is a premier emergency medical transportation company in the United States. It provides critical care air and ground transport services in various states, serving hospitals, EMS agencies, and the public through direct request. Their team comprises highly skilled nurses, paramedics, and pilots delivering 24/7 emergency response. The company focuses on safety, rapid response time, and delivering superior medical care.

Sources

Victim sitewww.survivalflightinc.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/5166935264

Source

Indexed 10 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 12, 2025Survival Flight Inc listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 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 Transportation/Logistics sector, which has 1,081 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Survival Flight Inc is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Survival Flight Inc 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 worldleaks'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.