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 16, 2026Tax & Accounting Plus listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 85 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Tax & Accounting Plus 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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Tax & Accounting Plus

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

85 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 16, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 16, 2026
Data size: 85 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Tax & Accounting Plus, Inc. is a US-based firm offering personal and professional tax and accounting services. The company emphasizes a low-pressure client experience and reports a high client-retention rate. It also provides financial calculators and tax-related guides to assist clients.

Industry: Tax & Accounting Services

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The claimed exfiltration of 85 GB includes regulated PII at scale (SSNs, passports, DLs, medical records) belonging to both clients and employees of a tax and accounting firm, constituting a serious breach of sensitive financial and personal data subject to multiple regulatory frameworks (IRS, HIPAA-adjacent, state privacy laws).

Akira claims to have exfiltrated 85 GB of corporate data from Tax & Accounting Plus, Inc., including clients' and employees' personal documents (scanned passports, driver's licenses, SSNs, medical records), contracts, financial records, NDAs, and partner files, with publication of the data imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Scanned passports
Driver's licenses
Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
Medical records
Client personal documents
Employee personal documents
Contracts and agreements
Detailed financial records
NDAs
Partner files

What the group claims

Tax & Accounting Plus, Inc. offers a range of personal and profes sional tax and accounting services with a focus on a low-pressure approach. The firm prides itself on its high client-retention ra te and the quality of its services. They provide various resource s, including financial calculators and tax-related guides, to ass ist clients. We will upload 85gb of corporate data soon. Great amount of clien ts' and employees personal documents (scanned passports, DLs, SSN s, medical records and so on), contracts and agreements, detailed financials, NDAs, partners files and so on.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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