Was The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) hit by ransomware?

The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (Mexico), 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 Akira ransomware group?

Akira 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 The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) breach?

Akira published data attributed to The Official College of Architects of León (COAL). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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The Official College of Architects of León (COAL)

Claimed by Akira · listed 3 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 2, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Mexico
Sector: Professional Services
Listed on leak site: Oct 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) is a professional regulatory body for architects established in 1931, originally covering León, Asturias, and Galicia. The organization later separated into distinct regional colleges (Galicia in 1973, Asturias in 1981), with COAL retaining jurisdiction over León.

Industry: Professional Services — Architecture
Founded: 1931

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration claim of significant data volume (77 GB) including regulated PII (passports, financial records) and professional/student information; professional regulatory body holding sensitive member and client data.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 77 GB of corporate data from COAL, including detailed personal information (passports), financial records, and student/client information.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passports and personal identification documents
Financial records
Student information
Client information
Corporate data

What the group claims

The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) was established on July 12, 1931, encompassin g the regions of León, Asturias, and Galicia. The College of Galicia was legally separated in 1 973 and the College of Asturias in 1981. We will upload 77gb of corporate data soon. Detailed personal information (passports), financia ls, students and clients information and so on.

Source

Indexed 3 hours ago

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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 1,758 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post October 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 2, 2026The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) listed by Akira on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,758 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 Professional Services sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) is reported in Mexico, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means The Official College of Architects of León (COAL) 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, CERT-MX (Mexico), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Akira'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.