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 19, 2026Career Adventures listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 8 GB

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, Career Adventures 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.

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Career Adventures

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

8 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 19, 2026
Data size: 8 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Career Adventures, Inc. is an employment agency based in Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana, specializing in temporary and full-time staffing solutions for start-up manufacturing facilities. The company has over 30 years of experience providing tailored workforce programs aimed at improving employee performance and reducing turnover.

Industry: Staffing & Employment Services
Address: Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 8 GB of data including regulated PII (passports, driver's licenses) and sensitive HR and financial records affecting employees and clients; data has been marked as published.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 8 GB of corporate data from Career Adventures, Inc., including employee personal information (passports, driver's licenses), HR records, financial data, client data, project files, and NDAs, with publication of the data stated as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee driver's licenses
HR records
Financial data
Client data
Project files
NDAs

What the group claims

Career Adventures, Inc is a leading employment agency in Shrevepo rt and Bossier City, Louisiana, specializing in temporary and ful l-time staffing solutions for start-up manufacturing facilities. With over 30 years of experience, they provide tailored programs that enhance employee performance and reduce turnover. We will upload 8gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal info rmation (passports, DLs and so on), lots of HR data, financials, a bit of client data, projects, NDA, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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