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

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

Data size: 17 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rioja Motor is reported in Spain, a country with 212 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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Riojamotor

listed as Rioja Motor · Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

17 GB

Data size

58d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 23, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026
Data size: 17 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Riojamotor is a Spanish automotive dealership specialising in the sale of new and used vehicles across brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Cupra. The company also offers vehicle financing options and appraisal services, serving both personal and commercial clients. It operates in the La Rioja region of Spain.

Industry: Automotive Retail & Vehicle Sales

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of regulated personal data at scale including government-issued identity documents, medical information, and client PII — all categories subject to GDPR and constituting a high-impact data breach affecting both employees and customers.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 17 GB of corporate data from Riojamotor, including employee personal information (passports, IDs, addresses, emails), medical information, client personal documents, financial records, project files, and correspondence, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports and ID documents
Employee addresses and emails
Employee medical information
Client personal documents
Financial records
Project files
Corporate correspondence

What the group claims

Riojamotor specializes in the sale of new and used vehicles, incl uding brands such as Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Cupra. Th ey offer financing options and vehicle appraisal services, cateri ng to clients looking for both personal and commercial vehicles. We will upload 17gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal inf ormation (passports, IDs, address, emails and so on), medical inf ormation, client personal docs, financials, lots of projects, cor respondence, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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