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 24, 2026Mooers Immigration listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 138 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, Mooers Immigration 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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Mooers Immigration

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

138 GB

Data size

57d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 24, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 24, 2026
Data size: 138 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mooers Immigration is a law firm specializing in immigration and nationality law in the United States. The firm offers services including employment-based and family-based immigration, naturalization, and strategic compliance planning. It focuses on providing cost-effective legal solutions to individuals and families navigating U.S. immigration processes.

Industry: Immigration & Nationality Law

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The threat actor claims exfiltration of highly sensitive regulated PII at scale — including passports, SSNs, driver's licenses, and credit card data belonging to immigration law clients — representing a serious risk of identity theft and immigration-related harm to potentially vulnerable individuals. The 138 GB volume and named high-profile individuals further elevate severity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 138 GB of corporate data from Mooers Immigration, including client passports, driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, visas, credit card information, financial records, 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
Visas
Driver's licenses
Social Security numbers (SSNs)
Credit card information
Financial records
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
Confidential documents

What the group claims

Mooers Immigration is dedicated to the practice of immigration an d nationality law, offering services such as employment-based and family-based immigration, naturalization, and strategic complian ce planning. The firm focuses on delivering cost-effective soluti ons to help individuals and families achieve their American dream s and navigate complex immigration processes. We will upload 138gb of corporate data soon. Lots of client docum ents (passports (LIONEL MESSI, LUCIANO ACOSTA passports and visas and other interesting documents), DLs, SSNs, visas, credit cards and so on), financials, confidential docs, NDAs, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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