Was childplace.org hit by ransomware?

childplace.org 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 childplace.org breach?

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

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childplace.org

Claimed by Incransom · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMay 5, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Incransom
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Childplace Family Services is a non-profit child-placing agency based in Southern Indiana, founded in 1966. The organization provides foster care, adoption, counseling, and community-based services to children and families at risk, particularly those who have experienced abandonment, abuse, or neglect. Over its history it has served more than 2,000 children and facilitated nearly 350 adoptions.

Industry: Child & Family Social Services (Non-Profit)
Address: 2420 East [truncated], Jeffersonville, IN, US
Employees: 100
Founded: 1966

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The organization handles highly sensitive PII for vulnerable minors and families involved in foster care, adoption, and counseling — including abuse and neglect case data. Data published status confirms exfiltration of what is likely regulated child welfare and mental health records, qualifying as critical under HIPAA, FERPA, and child protection frameworks.

The incransom group claims to have published data belonging to Childplace Family Services, with the disclosure status listed as 'data_published', indicating exfiltration and release of organizational data. No specific ransom amount or data size was stated in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee records
Client/family personal information
Foster care case files
Adoption records
Counseling service records
Financial records (revenue/operational data)
Contact and phone records

What the group claims

Childplace Family Services is dedicated to nurturing children and empowering families through a range of services including fostering, adoption, counseling, and community support. The organization aims to serve children and families at risk, particularly those who have experienced abandonment, abuse, or neglect. With a history of over 50 years, Childplace has successfully helped thousands of children find loving homes and provided essential support to families in need. Their mission is rooted in promoting hope and healing within the community, guided by a spirit of Christian love. Employees: 100 Revenue: $7.2 Million Industry: Non-Profit & Charitable Organizations Phone Number: (812) 282-8248

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months 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 1,712 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: inc ransom, INC.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 5, 2026childplace.org listed by Incransomon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Incransom

Incransom has been linked to 1,712 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Incransom dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, childplace.org is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Incransom means childplace.org 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.