Was Ardene Holdings hit by ransomware?

Ardene Holdings was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (Canada), 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 Ardene Holdings breach?

Akira published data attributed to Ardene Holdings (~58 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Ardene Holdings

Claimed by Akira · listed 4 months ago

58 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedFeb 13, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Feb 13, 2026
Data size: 58 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ardene Holdings Inc is a Canadian retailer operating in the apparel and accessories sector, headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. The company employs between 1,000 and 4,999 people and reports annual revenue in the range of $500 million to $1 billion. It operates retail stores selling clothing and accessories, primarily targeting a youth demographic across Canada and internationally.

Industry: Apparel & Accessories Retail
Address: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Employees: 1000-4999

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of 58 GB of data explicitly including regulated PII at scale (passports, driver's licences) for both employees and customers of a company with up to 4,999 staff and revenues up to $1 billion, constituting a large-scale breach of sensitive personal and financial data across multiple categories.

The Akira ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated more than 58 GB of data from Ardene Holdings, including financial records, employee and customer personally identifiable information (passports, driver's licences, contact details), confidential corporate documents, and NDAs.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial data (audits, payment details, invoices)
Employee personally identifiable information
Customer personally identifiable information
Passport copies
Driver's licence copies
Email addresses and phone numbers
Confidential corporate documents
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)

What the group claims

Ardene Holdings Inc is a company that operates in the Apparel & A ccessories Retail industry. It employs 1000to4999 people and has 500Mto1G of revenue. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Qu ebec, Canada We are ready to upload more than 58GB data. There are lots of ess ential corporate documents such as: financial data (audit, paymen t details, invoices), detailed employees and customers informatio n (passports, driver's license , emails, phones) confidential inf ormation, NDAs and other documents with detailed personal informa tion.

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 1,648 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 13, 2026Ardene Holdings listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 58 GB

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,648 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 Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ardene Holdings is reported in Canada, a country with 810 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Ardene Holdings 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.
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.