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, 2026Sheladia Associates listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Sheladia Associates 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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Sheladia Associates

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

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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: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sheladia Associates, Inc. is a multidisciplinary consulting firm specializing in architectural, engineering, and development consulting services, established in 1974. The company focuses on infrastructure projects in sectors such as transportation, water supply, sanitation, and energy. It operates across multiple regions including Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Industry: Multidisciplinary Engineering & Infrastructure Consulting
Founded: 1974

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed exfiltration includes regulated PII at scale (passports, driver licenses, credit cards, immigration documents), medical information, and financial records across a large employee and client base, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated a large volume of corporate data from Sheladia Associates, including employee personal identity documents, medical information, financial records, contracts, client files, NDAs, 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
Driver licenses
Credit card information
Immigration documents
Project files
Medical information
Financial records
Contracts and agreements
Client files
Internal confidential files
NDAs

What the group claims

Sheladia Associates, Inc. is a multidisciplinary consulting firm specializing in architectural, engineering, and development consu lting services. Established in 1974, the company focuses on infra structure projects in sectors such as transportation, water suppl y, sanitation, and energy across various regions including Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We will upload corporate data soon. Big amount of employee person al documents (passports, driver licenses, credit cards, immigrati on docs and so on), project files, medical information, financial s, contracts and agreements, client files, internal confidential files, NDAs.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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