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JA Riollano Co Inc; M&W Hydraulics; Mirbeau Inn & Spa; Reuland Electric Motor Co; Spectorgroup

Q: What data was leaked in the JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... breach?

Akira published data attributed to JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... (~28 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

listed as JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... · Claimed by Akira · listed 5 months ago

28 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 23, 2026
Data size: 28 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This leak post covers five distinct US-based companies: JA Riollano Co Inc (school/office/craft supply distributor), M&W Hydraulics (custom hydraulic manifold designer and manufacturer), Mirbeau Inn & Spa (French-inspired hotel and spa resorts in New York and Massachusetts), Reuland Electric Motor Co (electric motor lamination manufacturer), and Spectorgroup (architecture and interior design firm). The companies span multiple industries across the United States.

Industry: Mixed: Educational Supplies, Hydraulic Manufacturing, Hospitality & Spa, Electric Motor Manufacturing, Architecture & Design

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of 28 GB of data including regulated categories such as employee PII, medical information, and financial records across five companies, with data published status indicating the data has been released.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 28 GB of data across all five companies, including personal employee data, medical information, client information, project files, confidential documents, and accounting and financial records. No encryption claim is explicitly stated; the disclosure focuses on data exfiltration.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal employee data
Medical information
Client information
Project files
Confidential internal files
Accounting and financial records
Internal operational files

What the group claims

We obtained about 28gb of data of the following companies: JA Riollano Co, Inc. is a leading provider of school, office, cra ft, and copy supplies featuring the largest inventory and variety of educational products. The company offers online shopping with options for in-store pickup or direct shipping to offices. M&W Hydraulics specializes in designing and manufacturing custom hydraulic manifolds for mission-critical applications across vari ous industries. Their services include in-house design, rapid pro totyping, and integration, ensuring tailored solutions that meet specific client needs. Mirbeau Inn & Spa offers French-inspired hotel and spa resorts lo cated in Skaneateles, Albany, Rhinebeck, NY, and Plymouth, MA. Th e company focuses on providing a sanctuary for those seeking bala nce in their lives, emphasizing a restful ambiance and classic pl easures. Reuland produces standard Electric Motor Laminations as well as L aminations for custom applications. From High Speed Liquid Cooled motors to standard rated motors, Reuland has a solution for your application. Spectorgroup is a collective of architects, designers, strategist s, planners, and problem solvers dedicated to creating inspired s paces that foster teamwork and collaboration. You will find personal employee personal data, medical informatio n, client information, numerous project files, confidential files , accounting and financials and other internal operational files.

Source

Indexed 5 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

January 23, 2026JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 28 GB

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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means JA Riollano, M&W Manufacturing, Mirbeau Hospitality Services, Reuland Electric Motor Co, S... 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.