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 5, 2026Maximum Mold 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. Geographically, Maximum Mold is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Maximum Mold

Claimed by akira · listed 16 days ago

15d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Maximum Mold is a specialized provider of tooling and machining solutions focused on the design, engineering, and manufacturing of die cast dies, trim dies, and plastic injection molds. The company operates in the United States within the precision manufacturing sector. No additional public site details were available to further characterize its scale or headquarters.

Industry: Tooling & Machining / Die Cast & Injection Mold Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published (disclosed status: data_published) and includes regulated PII (passports, personal identity documents) as well as sensitive business data (NDAs, contracts, customer files). The presence of passport-level PII elevates this toward critical, but the relatively limited organizational scale and lack of confirmed medical, financial-sector, or government data keeps it at high rather than critical.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated company data from Maximum Mold, including employee personal information (passports and other identity documents), customer files, contracts and agreements, project files, and NDAs, and has published the data via password-free archives on a Tor-hosted leak site.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports and personal identity documents
Customer files
Contracts and agreements
Project files
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)

What the group claims

Maximum Mold is a specialized provider of tooling and machining solutions, focusing on the des ign, engineering, and manufacturing of die cast dies, trim dies, and plastic injection molds. Here is the access to upload company data. Employee personal information (passports, and other docs), customer files, contracts and agreements, projects, NDAs, etc. You will find several password-free archives. Click on any of them to start the download. Download link https://3i7uisihrgv3v7kjafmhahhcmtjfepckhw5vournekuamhbt37liplid.onion/LEAKS_1/maximummold.com /

Source

Indexed 16 days ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.