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

May 12, 2026Manhattan Broadcasting listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Telecommunication sector, which has 54 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Manhattan Broadcasting is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Manhattan Broadcasting

Claimed by akira · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 12, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Telecommunication
Listed on leak site: May 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Manhattan Broadcasting Company is a regional radio broadcasting company based in Manhattan, Kansas, serving Northeast Kansas for over 70 years. It operates multiple radio stations including KMAN 1350, K-Rock 101.5, B104.7, Z96.3, and Sunny 102.5, covering local and regional news, sports, weather, and entertainment. The company claims to reach over 100,000 listeners per week.

Industry: Radio Broadcasting
Address: Manhattan, Kansas, US

Attack summary

Severity: high — Akira has confirmed exfiltration and announced imminent publication of employee PII and corporate contracts; the data_published status indicates the data has been or is being released, constituting a significant business and personal data exposure even if scale is not precisely quantified.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Manhattan Broadcasting Company, including employee personal information, contracts, and miscellaneous files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Contracts
Internal photographs
Corporate files

What the group claims

Manhattan Broadcasting Company is a leading source of local and regional news, sports, weather, and entertainment in Northeast Kansas, engaging over 100,000 listeners weekly. We will upload of corporate data soon. Employee personal informatics, contracts, lots of pictur es and other files.

Sources

Victim sitemanhattanbroadcasting.com

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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