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 6, 2026Clinical Registry Solutions listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 1,779 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Clinical Registry Solutions is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Clinical Registry Solutions

Claimed by akira · listed 14 days ago

14d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 6, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: May 6, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Clinical Registry Solutions (CRS), formerly known as Cardiac Registry Support, is a healthcare data management company based in New York, United States. The company specializes in clinical data abstraction, medical record abstraction, and registry support services. Its clients include hospitals, health systems, contract research organizations, and clinical staffing firms across the United States and Canada.

Industry: Clinical Data Management & Registry Support Services
Address: New York, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of regulated PII at scale including SSNs, passports, health information, and financial/payment data affecting both employees and clients in a healthcare-sector company, meeting the threshold for critical severity under HIPAA and other privacy regulations.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 41 GB of corporate data from CRS, including detailed employee personal information, client documents and personal information, financial records, payment details, contracts, NDAs, and other sensitive documents, with publication of the data stated as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee driver's licenses
Employee Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Employee health information
Client personal information
Client documents
Financial records
Payment details
Contracts and agreements
NDAs

What the group claims

Clinical Registry Solutions (CRS) is a healthcare data management company based in New York, Un ited States, formerly operating as Cardiac Registry Support. The company specializes in clinica l data abstraction, medical record abstraction, and registry support services for hospitals, he alth systems, contract research organizations, and clinical staffing firms across the United St ates and Canada. We will upload 41gb of corporate data soon. Detailed employee personal information (passports, DLs, SSNs, health information, and other docs), client documents and personal information, fina ncials, payment details, contracts and agreements, NDAs, and so on.

Source

Indexed 14 days ago

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