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Silvercup Studios

Claimed by Storm · listed 14 days ago

13d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Storm
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Listed on leak site
Sep 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Silvercup Studios is a major production facility in Long Island City, New York, offering soundstages and photography facilities for film, television, music video, and editorial photography work. The company has hosted shoots for major fashion publications and produced music videos for prominent artists across multiple genres.

Industry
Film & Television Production, Photography Studio Facilities
Address
42-22 22nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101, United States
Employees
51-200

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a generic company description with no proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory published. No operational impact or data exfiltration details are stated.

The Storm group claims to have compromised Silvercup Studios and published data. The leak post does not specify what data was exfiltrated or whether encryption occurred, nor does it provide details on the scope or nature of the breach.

low

What the group claims

Silvercup Studios also provides facilities for still photography including shoots for fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Mirabella as well as The Source and XXL. Annie Liebowitz's famous cover shot for Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA album was shot on the company's stages. Many music videos have been produced and shot at the studio for artists such as Beyonce , Madonna, Mariah Carey, Kenny G. Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Limp Bizkit, George Michael, Nine Inch Nails, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. The company headquarters is located in 42-22 22nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101, United States. 51-200 Employees

Sources

Source

Indexed 14 days 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 84 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 7, 2026; most recent post October 8, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 30, 2026Silvercup Studios listed by Storm on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Storm

Storm has been linked to 84 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Silvercup Studios is reported in United States, a country with 3,176 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Storm means Silvercup Studios 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.