Ransomware victim disclosure

Northwest Woodworks

Claimed by akira · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Northwest Woodworks is a custom cabinetry and architectural woodwork manufacturer serving commercial clients for over 30 years. They provide design and fabrication services for commercial spaces, combining technology with skilled craftsmanship.

Industry: Custom Cabinetry & Architectural Woodwork

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated personal data at scale (SSNs, passports, driver's licenses) and sensitive business data (financials, client information, confidential drawings). Data publication already announced.

The Akira group claims to have exfiltrated 31 GB of corporate data including employee personal identification documents, financial records, client information, and confidential design drawings. The group has announced intent to publish the data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee identification documents (passports, driver's licenses)
Social Security Numbers
Employee personal information
Financial records
Client information
Confidential architectural drawings
Contracts and agreements
NDAs

What the group claims

Northwest Woodworks is a trusted partner of contractors for over 30 years, specializing in cust om cabinets and architectural woodwork for various commercial spaces. They combine cutting-edge technology with skilled craftsmanship to create cost-effective solutions that bring clients' v isions to life. We will upload 31gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal information (passports, DLs, SSNs and other information), contracts and agreements, financials, clients information, confidentia l drawings, NDAs, etc.

Source

Indexed 4 days 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 1,627 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 28, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 27, 2026Northwest Woodworks listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.