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 12, 2026Kaplan Companies listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

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, Kaplan Companies is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Kaplan Companies

Claimed by akira · listed 9 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 12, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kaplan Companies is a US-based real estate firm specializing in rental and commercial properties, with a focus on new home development and maintenance services for current residents. The company serves individuals and families seeking quality housing solutions. No public website was available to confirm additional operational details.

Industry: Real Estate & Property Management

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of regulated PII at scale including SSNs, passports, and driver's licenses for both employees and owners, combined with financial and payment data — meeting the threshold for critical severity under confirmed exfiltration of regulated/sensitive data.

The Akira ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 45 GB of corporate data from Kaplan Companies, including employee and owner PII, client information, financial records, and project 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 (passports, driver's licenses, SSNs)
Owner personal information (passports, driver's licenses, SSNs)
Contracts and agreements
Client information
Financial records
Payment details
Project files
Drawings and specifications

What the group claims

Kaplan Companies specializes in providing rental and commercial properties, focusing on new hom es and maintenance services for current residents. The company aims to cater to individuals and families seeking quality housing solutions. We will upload 45gb of corporate data soon. Employee and owners personal information (passports , DLs, SSNs, and other personal docs), contracts and agreements, client information, financials , payment details, projects files, drawings and specifications and so on.

Source

Indexed 9 days ago

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