Disclosure context

About akira

Akira is a ransomware group that emerged in April 2023, operating with primarily financial motivations and has rapidly established itself as a significant threat actor with over 1,500 documented victims. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, recruiting affiliates to conduct attacks while the core group maintains the ransomware infrastructure and negotiation processes. Akira employs multi-faceted attack methodologies including exploitation of VPN vulnerabilities, particularly targeting Cisco VPN appliances, and utilizes living-off-the-land techniques along with legitimate administrative tools to avoid detection, while implementing double extortion tactics by exfiltrating sensitive data before deploying their encryption payload. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy, with a particular focus on manufacturing, business services, technology, and construction sectors, though they have shown willingness to attack various industries. Despite being relatively new to the ransomware landscape, Akira has maintained consistent operations throughout 2023 and into 2024, with law enforcement agencies including CISA and FBI issuing advisories about their activities, though no major disruption operations have been publicly reported against the group as of late 2024. The group has been linked to 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 7, 2026Elia Law Firm listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Elia Law Firm is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

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Elia Law Firm

Claimed by akira · listed 13 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 7, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Elia Law Firm APC is a law firm based in San Diego, California, specializing in personal injury, civil litigation, and business law. The firm focuses on representing clients to maximize recovery for physical, mental, and financial losses. No additional details on firm size or founding date are publicly available from the provided sources.

Industry: Legal Services – Personal Injury & Civil Litigation
Address: San Diego, California, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claim involves confirmed exfiltration of highly regulated PII at scale (SSNs, passports, DLs, financial data) alongside privileged legal files and client-sensitive court/police records, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 100 GB of corporate data from Elia Law Firm APC, including detailed employee personal information, legal case files, financial records, and payment details, with publication of the data described as imminent.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Driver's licenses
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Death and birth certificates
Employee financial information
Payment details
Court hearing documents
Police reports
Legal case files
Corporate financial records

What the group claims

Elia Law Firm APC is a top San Diego law firm specializing in personal injury, civil litigation , and business law. They are dedicated to fighting for their clients' rights and maximizing rec overy for physical, mental, and financial losses. We will upload 100gb of corporate data soon. Detailed employee personal information (passport, DLs, SSN, death and birth certificates, financial information, payment details and so on), lots of legal files (court hearings, police reports and so on), financials, etc.

Source

Indexed 13 days ago

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