Was Pacific Tank Lines hit by ransomware?

Pacific Tank Lines was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (United States), 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 Pacific Tank Lines breach?

Akira published data attributed to Pacific Tank Lines. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Pacific Tank Lines

Claimed by Akira · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 2, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Transportation
Listed on leak site: Oct 2, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pacific Tank Lines, Inc. is a full-service petroleum cargo carrier operating across California and Nevada. The company operates a modern fleet of professional drivers and maintains multiple distribution terminals, with a stated focus on safety, customer service, and carbon footprint reduction.

Industry: Petroleum Transportation & Logistics
Address: Multiple terminals: Colton, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Bakersfield, Van Nuys, San Diego, Las Vegas, Fresno, California; phone (951) 680-1900
Employees: 118

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of PII at scale (118 employees with passports, DLs, addresses, payment details) plus financial and client data. Data has been published. Sensitive identity documents and payment information create significant fraud and identity theft risk.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 13 GB of corporate data including detailed personal information of 118 employees (passports, driver's licenses, addresses, phone numbers, payment details), financial records, and client information. The group announced intention to publish this data.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal identification (passports, driver's licenses)
Employee addresses and contact information
Employee payment details
Financial records
Client information

What the group claims

Pacific Tank Lines, Inc. is a premier full-service petroleum carrier focused on safety and cust omer service. They offer reliable petroleum cargo services with a professional team of drivers and efficient dispatchers. The company operates a modern fleet aimed at reducing their carbon f ootprint and has received multiple awards for their service excellence. We will upload 13gb of corporate data soon. Detailed personal information of 118 employees (pas sports, DLs, addresses, phones, payment details and so on), financials, clients and so on.

Sources

Victim sitepacifictanklines.com

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 1,758 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post October 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 2, 2026Pacific Tank Lines listed by Akira on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,758 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 Transportation sector, which has 47 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Pacific Tank Lines is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Pacific Tank Lines 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.