Was TrueCore Behavioral Solutions hit by ransomware?

TrueCore Behavioral Solutions was listed by the Storm 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 Storm ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the TrueCore Behavioral Solutions breach?

Storm published data attributed to TrueCore Behavioral Solutions. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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TrueCore Behavioral Solutions

Claimed by Storm · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 21, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Sep 21, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

TrueCore Behavioral Solutions is a behavioral treatment provider based in Tampa, FL, specializing in residential and outpatient services for at-risk adjudicated youth aged 13–21. Established in 2001, the company employs 51–200 staff and uses strength-based, evidence-based interventions to serve youth and their families.

Industry: Behavioral Health Services for At-Risk Youth
Address: 1907 US-301, Building C, Suite C150, Tampa, FL 33619, United States
Employees: 51-200
Founded: 2001

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published (disclosed_status = data_published), but the leak post and accessible evidence contain no inventory of exfiltrated files, no proof screenshots, and no details of what sensitive data is at stake. The company handles behavioral health records for minors, which would be highly sensitive if breached, but no evidence of actual exfiltration is presented.

The Storm group claims to have accessed TrueCore's systems. The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or otherwise compromised, nor does it detail the scope or nature of the breach.

medium

What the group claims

TrueCore Behavioral Solutions is a behavioral treatment provider located in Tampa, FL, specializing in services for at-risk adjudicated youth aged 13-21. Established in 2001, the company is committed to empowering individuals, families, and communities to discover their true potential through quality behavioral health services. They offer residential and outpatient treatment programs that utilize a strength-based approach and evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of the youth they serve. TrueCore is recognized for its unmatched commitment to helping youth improve their quality of life and achieve personal success. The company headquarters is located in 1907 US-301, Building C, Suite C150, Tampa, FL 33619, United States. 51-200 Employees

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 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 64 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post September 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 21, 2026TrueCore Behavioral Solutions listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 64 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 Healthcare sector, which has 2,608 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, TrueCore Behavioral Solutions is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means TrueCore Behavioral 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 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.