Ransomware victim disclosure

GRIP Outreach For Youth

Claimed by nightspire · listed 5 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 8, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: nightspire
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Jun 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

GRIP Outreach For Youth is a Chicago-based non-profit organization that invests in the lives of local youth through Christ-centered mentorship relationships. The organization facilitates Life-on-Life mentoring between trained adult volunteers and youth participants, with reported reach of approximately 496 youth and 244 trained adults for urban outreach.

Industry: Non-Profit Youth Mentorship & Christian Outreach
Address: P.O. Box 10310, Chicago, IL 60610

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of child protection records and youth participant data from a youth-serving organization constitutes exposure of sensitive information concerning minors, triggering critical classification under regulated data criteria.

The nightspire group claims to have exfiltrated Financial & Accounting Records, Sensitive Employee information, Youth Participant & Child Protection Records, and Governance & Legal Documents. Data has been published on the group's leak site.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial & Accounting Records
Sensitive Employee Records
Youth Participant Records
Child Protection Records
Governance & Legal Documents

What the group claims

- Financial & Accounting Records- Sensitive Employee- Youth Participant & Child Protection Records- Governance & Legal Documents

Sources

Victim sitewww.gripyouth.com

Source

Indexed 5 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About nightspire

Nightspire is a ransomware group that first emerged in March 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having targeted over 215 victims in a relatively short operational timeframe. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from major cybersecurity organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a broad opportunistic approach rather than nation-state backing. Based on available victim data, Nightspire appears to employ common ransomware attack vectors targeting organizations across multiple sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and construction industries, while demonstrating a geographic preference for victims in the United States, India, Taiwan, France, and Hong Kong. The group's rapid victim acquisition rate since their March 2025 emergence suggests an active and potentially effective operational capability, though specific technical details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, or extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by major threat intelligence firms. Given the recent emergence of this group and limited public reporting from established cybersecurity organizations like CISA, FBI, or Mandiant, Nightspire remains an active threat with insufficient public documentation to fully assess their operational sophistication or organizational structure. The group has been linked to 281 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on March 12, 2025; most recent post June 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 8, 2026GRIP Outreach For Youth listed by nightspireon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, GRIP Outreach For Youth is reported in US, a country with 2,714 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.