Total Air Solutions Listed by ALPHV Ransomware Group

On January 23, 2024, Total Air Solutions appeared on the leak site operated by the alphv ransomware group. The Florida-based HVAC contractor, which serves residential and commercial customers in North Port, Tampa, and Bradenton, had more than 250GB of internal files exfiltrated. Anyone whose personal or financial records passed through the company—employees, customers, vendors, or subcontractors—may now face heightened risk of identity theft and targeted fraud.

Details from the Leak Listing

The alphv leak site states that the company’s network was breached and that the attackers extracted over 250GB of data. The listing explicitly names categories of stolen material: financial data, project files, project closeouts, blueprints, engineering documents, personal documents, contracts and subcontracts, vendor and customer contacts, and employee personal data. The disclosure does not quantify the number of individuals affected, nor does it list exact file types or samples. The group set a publication deadline and began releasing portions of the archive to pressure the victim.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

If you live or work in the North Port, Tampa, or Bradenton area and have done business with Total Air Solutions, your information could be sitting in a ransomware archive. Employee personal data and customer contacts are particularly dangerous because they often include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and payment details. A single leak like this can supply criminals with enough pieces to open accounts in your name, file fraudulent tax returns, or impersonate you to utilities and banks. Even if you were only a vendor or subcontractor, the contracts and personal documents listed increase the chance that your family’s details may now be circulating among threat actors.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Ransomware leaks rarely stop at one company. Criminals combine the freshly stolen employee and customer records with data from previous breaches to build complete identity profiles. An email address taken here can be matched to gaming accounts, social-media handles, or school records belonging to you or your children. Once those links are established, attackers can hijack online accounts, demand ransom from family members, or sell the full dossier on dark-web marketplaces. Credential leaks of this type frequently cascade into account takeovers precisely because the same passwords are reused across work, personal, and gaming services.

Alphv’s Public Track Record

Public reporting attributes the alphv group, also known as BlackCat, with emerging in late 2021. The gang has targeted hospitals, manufacturers, and service companies across the United States and Europe. Their typical playbook begins with initial access gained through phishing, compromised remote-desktop credentials, or exploited vulnerabilities. Once inside, they exfiltrate data before deploying ransomware. They then extort victims twice—first demanding payment to decrypt files and second threatening to publish the stolen information. The alphv leak site is designed to maximize pressure by allowing partial data dumps and countdown timers.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your handles, emails, phone numbers, and real identity, then use the cleanup to remove what you can.
• Rotate any password you ever used at Total Air Solutions and enable 2FA with an authenticator app on every account where that password was reused.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure of your data is caught in hours rather than months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that extends to dependents and children’s gaming accounts that often chain back to the same address or parent email.
• Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests for any exposed personal documents or contacts that surface on broker sites.

The incident shows how quickly a local service provider’s breach can expose ordinary families to professional cybercriminals. Acting promptly limits what attackers can build from the 250GB already released. DoxxScan delivers continuous monitoring across 13.1 billion+ breach records and more than 100 platforms, AI-powered identity-chain mapping that connects online handles to real identities, hands-on remediation by specialists, and full household coverage that includes children’s gaming accounts. Start your DoxxScan trial today to close the gaps this leak has opened.