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Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wastewater Treatment Solutions

Q: What data was leaked in the Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... breach?

Akira published data attributed to Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... (~22 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

listed as Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... · Claimed by Akira · listed 5 months ago

22 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jan 15, 2026
Data size: 22 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This leak post covers five distinct companies: Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus PC (a labor and ERISA law firm serving multiemployer unions and benefit funds), CogneSense (measurement, monitoring, and control solutions for regulated industries), Netberry Solutions (internet and technology services), Hein Electric Supply Company (independent electrical distributor based in West Allis, Wisconsin), and Jet Wastewater Treatment Solutions (chemical supplies for wastewater treatment systems). The companies span legal, industrial, IT, electrical distribution, and environmental services sectors, all based in or operating within the United States.

Industry: Multi-sector: Labor & ERISA Law, Industrial Monitoring, IT Services, Electrical Distribution, Wastewater Treatment

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 22 GB across multiple companies including PII, financial data, and client information, with data already published. The inclusion of a law firm handling union benefit fund data and regulated-industry clients elevates sensitivity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 22 GB of data across all five companies, including personal employee data, client information, project files, and accounting and financial records. The disclosure status is listed as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been or is being released.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal employee data
Client information
Project files
Accounting records
Financial records
Internal operational files

What the group claims

We obtained about 22gb of data of the following companies: Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus PC operates as a specialized labor and ERISA law firm serving multiemployer unions, their benefit funds , and union-affiliated organizations. Cognesense provides advanced measurement, monitoring, and control solutions for industries with strict regulations. Netberry Solutions offers services of two areas: INTERNET AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Hein Electric Supply Company is an independent electrical distrib utor based in West Allis, Wisconsin, specializing in a wide range of electrical products and services. Jet Wastewater Treatment Solutions offers a comprehensive range o f chemical supplies to enhance the efficiency of its systems. You will find personal employee personal data, client information , numerous project files, accounting and financials and other int ernal 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 15, 2026Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 22 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

Geographically, Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... 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 Gorlick Kravitz & Listhaus, CogneSense, Netberry Solutions, Hein Electric Supply, Jet Wast... 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.