Was Pilana Group, TRITCON hit by ransomware?

Pilana Group, TRITCON was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (Czech Republic), 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 Pilana Group, TRITCON breach?

Akira published data attributed to Pilana Group, TRITCON (~93 GB), around 1400 customers records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Pilana Group, TRITCON

Claimed by Akira · listed 3 months ago

93 GB

Data size

1400 customers records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 16, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Czech Republic
Listed on leak site: Mar 16, 2026
Data size: 93 GB
Records: 1400 customers

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Pilana Group is a Czech manufacturer with nearly 90 years of experience specializing in industrial knives and parts for the wood processing, recycling, and metal processing industries. The company serves over 1,400 customers globally and supplies components to various machine manufacturers. TRITCON appears to be an associated entity included in the same disclosure.

Industry: Industrial Knives & Cutting Tools Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: critical — 93 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data includes regulated PII (passports, driving licences) for employees at scale, client personal data, and sensitive financial and technical records; data publication is stated as imminent, constituting a critical regulated-data breach.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 93 GB of corporate data from Pilana Group and TRITCON, including personal employee information, client records, financial documents, contracts, technical drawings and specifications, and project files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee driving licences
Employee addresses and emails
Client addresses, IDs, emails and phone numbers
Financial records
Contracts and agreements
Technical drawings and specifications
Project files

What the group claims

Pilana Group is a Czech company with nearly 90 years of experienc e, specializing in the production of industrial knives and parts for the wood processing, recycling, and metal processing industri es. They serve over 1400 customers globally, providing high-quali ty products for various machine manufacturers. We will upload 93gb of corporate data soon. Personal employee inf ormation (passports, Dls, addresses, emails), clients information (addresses, IDs, emails, phones and so on), financials, contract s and agreements, drawings and specifications, projects, etc.

Source

Indexed 3 months 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 1,648 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 16, 2026Pilana Group, TRITCON listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 93 GB
Records: 1400 customers

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,648 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Pilana Group, TRITCON is reported in Czech Republic, a country with 10 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Pilana Group, TRITCON 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.
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.