Was Nafco hit by ransomware?

Nafco was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (Japan), 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 Nafco breach?

Akira published data attributed to Nafco (~150 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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NAFCO Fish

listed as Nafco · Claimed by Akira · listed 4 months ago

150 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Japan
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026
Data size: 150 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NAFCO Fish is a seafood company with over 30 years of experience specializing in responsibly sourced seafood products. They supply brick-and-mortar stores, meal kit companies, and e-commerce food retailers with a full range of frozen, fresh, live, salted, and smoked seafood options. Their operations emphasize food safety and quality processing.

Industry: Seafood Distribution & Processing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The post confirms exfiltration of regulated personal data at scale including government-issued identity documents (passports, IDs) and medical information belonging to employees, alongside financial and contractual business data — constituting a breach of sensitive PII and health data subject to regulatory frameworks.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 150 GB of corporate data from NAFCO Fish, including employee personal information (passports, IDs, medical records), financial records, and contracts, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee ID documents
Employee medical information
Financial records
Contracts
Corporate data

What the group claims

NAFCO Fish is an industry innovator specializing in responsibly s ourced seafood, providing high-quality products and services to b rick-and-mortar stores, meal kit companies, and e-commerce food r etailers. With over 30 years of experience, they offer a full ran ge of seafood products including frozen, fresh, live, salted, and smoked options, all processed with a focus on safety and quality . We will upload 150gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal in formation (passports, IDs, medical information), financials, cont racts, etc.

Source

Indexed 4 months 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 1,672 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 23, 2026Nafco listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 150 GB

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,672 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Nafco is reported in Japan, a country with 220 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Nafco 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, JPCERT/CC (Japan), 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.