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

March 24, 2026The Russell's Law Firm listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 15 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Russell's Law Firm is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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The Russell's Law Firm

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

15 GB

Data size

57d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 24, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 24, 2026
Data size: 15 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Russell's Law Firm is a U.S.-based law firm specializing in personal injury, wrongful death, criminal defense, and DUI cases. The firm focuses on representing individuals harmed through negligence or facing criminal charges, emphasizing equitable legal representation. No additional details on size, location, or founding date are publicly available from the provided sources.

Industry: Legal Services – Personal Injury & Criminal Defense

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of highly regulated and sensitive PII at scale — including SSNs, medical records, passports, and court/police documents — belonging to law firm clients, constituting a critical breach of confidential legal and personal data subject to multiple regulatory frameworks.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 15 GB of data from The Russell's Law Firm, including highly sensitive client PII (passports, driver's licenses, SSNs, birth/death certificates, medical records), police reports, court documents, and financial files; the group states the data will be published imminently.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Passports
Driver's licenses
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Birth certificates
Death certificates
Home addresses
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Medical records
Police reports
Court documents
Financial records
Confidential legal files

What the group claims

The Russell's Law Firm specializes in personal injury, wrongful d eath, criminal defense, and DUI cases, offering expert legal repr esentation for their clients. They aim to support individuals who have been harmed due to negligence or charged with crimes, empha sizing that everyone deserves fair treatment under the law. We will upload 15gb of corporate data soon. We took a lot of pers onal data of their clients (passports, DLs, SSNs, death\birth cer ts, addresses, phones, emails, medical records, and so on), polic e reports, court docs, lots of confidential files, financials, et c.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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