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Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools (Multiple Victims)

Q: What data was leaked in the Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. breach?

Akira published data attributed to Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. (~13 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

listed as Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. · Claimed by Akira · listed 3 months ago

13 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 30, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 30, 2026
Data size: 13 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This leak post covers five distinct companies: Office Peeps (office supplies retailer with 50,000+ SKUs), Nappie's Foods (family-owned food service and restaurant supply provider based in Pittsburgh, PA), Janome America (largest US subsidiary of Janome Sewing Machine Company of Japan, producing ~2 million machines annually), IT-Supporten (IT solutions and equipment supplier serving private and business clients), and A-1 Pools (family-owned above-ground pool, hot tub, and spa retailer serving Waukesha, Washington, and Milwaukee Counties in Wisconsin).

Industry: Office Supplies / Food Service / Consumer Sewing Machines / IT Services / Pool & Spa Retail

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group explicitly claims exfiltration of medical information and personal employee PII at scale across five companies, alongside financial and HR records — multiple categories of regulated/sensitive data are confirmed as exfiltrated and published.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 13 GB of data across all five companies, encompassing personal employee data, HR files, medical information, client information, project files, confidential documents, and accounting and financial records. No encryption claim is explicitly stated; the disclosure status indicates data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

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

What the group claims

We obtained about 13gb of data of the following companies: Office Peeps offers a wide range of over 50,000 office supplies, including general office supplies, ink and toner, coffee and brea kroom items, and janitorial supplies. Nappie's Foods is a family-owned food service provider and restau rant supply expert based in Pittsburgh. The company emphasizes qu ality, service, and loyalty, aiming to maintain superior customer service while operating with a friendly, family-owned mentality. Janome America is the largest subsidiary of Janome Sewing Machine Company of Japan, which produces nearly two million sewing machi nes annually as well as a line of related sewing products and emb roidery software. IT-Supporten provides tailored IT solutions for both private and business markets, ensuring optimal results for each client. They are a comprehensive supplier of IT equipment, offering competitiv e pricing and a range of services including consultation and oper ational agreements. A-1 Pools is a family-owned business based in Wisconsin, speciali zing in above-ground pools, hot tubs, swim spas, and saunas. They serve clients in Waukesha County, Washington County, and Milwauk ee County, offering high-quality products and exceptional custome r service. You will find personal employee personal data, lots of HR files, medical information, client information, numerous project files, confidential files, accounting and financials and other internal operational files.

Source

Indexed 3 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

March 30, 2026Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 13 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 Business Services sector, which has 2,643 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. 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 Office Peeps, Nappie's Food Service, Janome America, IT-Supporten, A-1 Pools. 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.