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 20, 2026Motorpal listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 31 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Motorpal is reported in Czech Republic, a country with 10 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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Motorpal

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

31 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Czech Republic
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026
Data size: 31 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Motorpal, a.s. is a Czech manufacturer of injection systems for diesel engines, established in 1946. The company produces injection pumps, injectors, and spare parts, and also provides sales and service support for its products.

Industry: Diesel Engine Injection Systems Manufacturing
Founded: 1946

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 31 GB including employee PII (addresses, phones, scanned documents), detailed HR data, and sensitive business records (financials, contracts, projects); data is stated as published/pending upload, indicating a significant and broad data breach.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 31 GB of corporate data from Motorpal, including employee personal information, HR records, financial data, partner files, contracts, and project documents, with publication described as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information (addresses, phone numbers)
Scanned employee documents
HR records
Financial data
Partner files
Contracts
Project files

What the group claims

MOTORPAL, a. s. is a prominent manufacturer of injection systems for diesel engines, established in 1946. The company specializes in producing a range of products including injection pumps, injec tors, and spare parts, as well as providing sales and service sup port. We will upload 31gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal inf ormation (addresses, phones, scanned documents and so on), detail ed HR data, financials, partners files, contracts, projects, and so on.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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