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 27, 2026Quality Carton and Converting 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, Quality Carton and Converting 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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Quality Carton and Converting

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

54d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 27, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Quality Carton and Converting, LLC specializes in food and beverage paperboard packaging, offering both in-stock items and custom folding carton solutions. Their product range includes bakery and donut boxes, pizza boxes, cupcake inserts, and utility trays. The company operates in the United States.

Industry: Food & Beverage Paperboard Packaging

Attack summary

Severity: high — Akira claims exfiltration of a wide range of sensitive data including employee PII (credit cards, driver's licenses), financial records, and client files. While the data has not yet been published and no proof files are currently advertised, the breadth and sensitivity of the claimed data — particularly personal financial and identity documents — warrants a high severity rating.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated a broad range of corporate data from Quality Carton and Converting and states the data will be uploaded soon. The claimed data includes employee personal documents, HR files, financial documents, payment details, contracts, client files, and NDAs.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee credit card information
Driver's licenses and personal identity documents
HR files
Project files
Financial documents
Payment details
Contracts and agreements
Client files
Confidential files
NDAs

What the group claims

Quality Carton and Converting, LLC. specializes in food and bever age paperboard packaging, offering both in-stock items and custom folding carton solutions. Their product range includes various t ypes of bakery and donut boxes, pizza boxes, cupcake inserts, and utility trays. We will upload corporate data soon. Employee personal documents ( credit cards, DLs and so on), HR files, project files, financials docs, payment details, contracts and agreements, client files, c onfidential files, NDAs.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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