Was Southern California Telephone Company hit by ransomware?

Southern California Telephone Company was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Akira ransomware group?

Akira is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Southern California Telephone Company breach?

Akira published data attributed to Southern California Telephone Company. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Southern California Telephone Company

Claimed by Akira · listed 13 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy & Utilities
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Southern California Telephone Company (SCTC) is a regional telecom provider offering high-speed internet, mobility solutions, virtual fax services, and VoIP to residential and business customers across Southern California. The company has been operating for over 30 years.

Industry: Telecommunications

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated/sensitive data at scale: employee PII (passports, tax documents), customer PII (phone numbers), and business confidential materials (NDAs, certificates). Telecommunications sector handles customer data subject to regulatory requirements (FCC, state telecom regulations).

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 34 GB of corporate data including employee personal information (passports, W-9 tax forms), customer information (phone numbers and sensitive details), contracts, agreements, NDAs, and confidential certificates.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information (passports, W-9 forms)
Customer information (phone numbers, sensitive data)
Contracts and agreements
NDAs
Confidential certificates

What the group claims

Southern California Telephone Company (SCTC) is a dynamic telecom provider with over 30 years o f experience, offering a comprehensive range of services for both residential and business clie nts. Their product lineup includes high-speed internet, mobility solutions, virtual fax service s, and VoIP offerings, catering to various connectivity needs. We will upload 34gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal information (passports, w-9s and so on), customer information (phone numbers and other sensitive information), contracts and agr eements, NDAs, confidential certificates and so on.

Source

Indexed 13 hours 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 1,734 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026Southern California Telephone Company listed by Akira on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,734 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 Energy & Utilities sector, which has 169 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Southern California Telephone Company is reported in United States, a country with 3,165 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Southern California Telephone Company 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.