Was Sawyer Savings Bank hit by ransomware?

Sawyer Savings Bank 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?

Storm 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 Sawyer Savings Bank breach?

Storm published data attributed to Sawyer Savings Bank. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Sawyer Savings Bank

Claimed by Storm · listed 2 months ago

45d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Storm
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Aug 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sawyer Savings Bank is a community-focused mutual financial institution founded in 1871 with over 150 years of experience. Based in Saugerties, NY, it offers personal banking (checking, savings, mortgages), business banking services, and digital banking solutions. The bank is actively involved in local community support through scholarships and volunteerism.

Industry: Community Banking & Financial Services
Address: 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY 12477, United States
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1871

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed ransomware attack on a regulated financial institution handling sensitive customer PII and financial data at scale. All bank branches temporarily closed, indicating operational disruption. Financial services are critical infrastructure.

The Storm group claims to have conducted a ransomware attack on Sawyer Savings Bank. The leak post does not explicitly state whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it specify what data categories are at stake.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer account records
banking transaction data
personal identification information
business customer records

What the group claims

Sawyer Savings Bank is a community-focused financial institution with over 150 years of experience, offering a range of personal and business banking services. Their products include personal checking, savings accounts, business loans, and digital banking solutions designed to enhance customer convenience and security. The bank is dedicated to supporting local communities through various initiatives, including scholarships and volunteerism. Their target clients include individuals seeking personal banking solutions and businesses looking for comprehensive banking support. The company headquarters is located in 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY 12477, United States.11-50 Employees

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months 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

August 8, 2026Sawyer Savings Bank 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 Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sawyer Savings Bank 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 Sawyer Savings Bank 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.