Was takethehop.com hit by ransomware?

takethehop.com was listed by the Incransom 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 Incransom ransomware group?

Incransom 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 takethehop.com breach?

Incransom published data attributed to takethehop.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Hill Country Transit District (The HOP)

listed as takethehop.com · Claimed by Incransom · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 27, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Hospitality
Listed on leak site: Jul 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The HOP is a regional public transit system operated by the Hill Country Transit District (HCTD) in Texas, serving Bell, Coryell, and Milam counties. Founded in the 1960s as a voluntary transportation service, it has grown into a major public-transport network offering microtransit, urban, regional, commuter, and demand-response services across central Texas.

Industry: Public Transportation & Transit Services
Address: Texas, USA (serving Bell, Coryell, and Milam counties)
Founded: 1960

Attack summary

Severity: high — Public transit infrastructure is critical infrastructure with operational and safety implications. A confirmed ransomware attack on a transit district serving multiple counties represents significant disruption potential and likely involves rider PII and operational data.

The ransomware group incransom claims to have attacked The HOP (Hill Country Transit District). The leak post indicates data exfiltration, though specific details on what data was stolen or operational impact are not provided in the truncated post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

rider data
operational systems
administrative records

What the group claims

The HOP, an American regional public transit system operated by the Hill Country Transit District (HCTD). Founded in the 1960s in the state of Texas (USA) as a voluntary transportation service, the organization has grown over the decades into a major public public-transport network.

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Incransom

Incransom is a ransomware group that emerged in August 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations as evidenced by their targeting of high-value sectors across multiple developed nations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service model. With 734 documented victims, Incransom has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, with particular focus on healthcare, technology, business services, and manufacturing sectors, though their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by established security researchers or government agencies. The group's notable campaigns and specific high-profile victims have not been publicly detailed by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources, suggesting either operational security effectiveness or limited visibility into their most significant operations. Based on available intelligence, Incransom appears to remain active as of recent reporting periods, though comprehensive analysis of their current operational status requires additional documentation from established threat intelligence sources. The group has been linked to 1,733 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post July 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom, INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 27, 2026takethehop.com listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 1,733 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 Hospitality sector, which has 105 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, takethehop.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,138 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means takethehop.com 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 Incransom'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.