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

May 15, 2026Fox Valley Tax Solutions listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fox Valley Tax Solutions is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Fox Valley Tax Solutions

Claimed by akira · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 15, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fox Valley Tax Solutions is a full-service tax preparation and advisory firm located in Saint Charles, Illinois. The firm provides personalized tax preparation, strategic planning, IRS issue resolution, tax consultation, and notary services to individuals, businesses, trusts, and estates. It is a small local practice operating out of a single office location.

Industry: Tax Preparation & Advisory Services
Address: 605 West Main Street, Suite A, Saint Charles, Illinois 60174

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of large-scale regulated PII including SSNs, passports, driver's licenses, and financial records belonging to individual tax clients — constituting sensitive personally identifiable and financial data at scale, meeting the critical threshold.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 95 GB of corporate data, including detailed client personal information (passports, driver's licenses, SSNs, financial records), contracts, agreements, NDAs, and other confidential documents, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client passports
Client driver's licenses
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Client financial information
Contracts and agreements
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
Confidential corporate documents

What the group claims

Fox Valley Tax Solutions is a full-service tax firm located in Saint Charles, Illinois, special izing in personalized tax preparation and strategic planning services. They cater to individual s, businesses, trusts, and estates, offering a range of services including tax consultation, IR S issue resolution, and notary services. We will upload 95gb of corporate data soon. Detailed client personal information (passports, DL s, SSNs, financial information), contracts and agreements, NDAs and other confidential docs.

Sources

Victim sitefoxvalleytaxsolutions.com

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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