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 7, 2026Jacobs Doland Beer listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Jacobs Doland Beer 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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Jacobs Doland Beer

Claimed by akira · listed 14 days ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 7, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Jacobs Doland Beer (JDB) is a specialized foodservice design and consulting firm based in New York City. The firm provides foodservice consulting services for projects across the United States, with notable clients including Eleven Madison Park, Mutual of America, and multiple food halls in New York City.

Industry: Foodservice Design & Consulting
Address: New York City, New York, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of 170 GB of data containing regulated PII at scale (employee and client personal data including DOB, addresses), financial records, and credit card statements, all of which constitute sensitive/regulated data across multiple categories; data publication is stated as imminent.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 170 GB of corporate data from Jacobs Doland Beer, including employee personal information, client documents with PII (dates of birth, names, addresses), financial records, credit card statements, contracts, NDAs, and internal confidential files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information
Client documents with PII (DOB, name, address)
Financial records
Credit card statements
Contracts and agreements
NDAs
Internal confidential files

What the group claims

Jacobs Doland Beer (JDB) is a specialized foodservice design firm based in New York City, focus ing on foodservice consulting for various projects across the country. The firm has worked on n otable projects such as Eleven Madison Park, Mutual of America, and several food halls in New Y ork City. We will upload 170gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal information, client documents (D OB, name, address and so on), financials, credit card statements, contracts and agreements, NDA s, internal confidential files and so on.

Source

Indexed 14 days ago

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