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 20, 2026Sid Harvey's 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, Sid Harvey's 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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Sid Harvey Industries

listed as Sid Harvey's · Claimed by akira · listed 13 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: May 20, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Sid Harvey Industries is a wholesale distributor of refrigeration, air conditioning, and heating equipment and parts serving contractors across the United States. The company operates in the B2B HVAC supply sector.

Industry: Wholesale Distribution - HVAC Equipment & Parts
Employees: 500

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated PII at scale (~500 employees) including SSNs, financial records, passports, and driver's licenses, plus sensitive corporate data. This meets critical threshold for regulated personal data exposure.

The Akira group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 740 GB of corporate data, including detailed employee personal information (passports, driver's licenses, SSNs, financial records), contracts, financial records, and client/partner information. Data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

employee passports
employee driver's licenses
employee social security numbers
employee personal financial records
death certificates
credit cards
confidential agreements
corporate contracts
financial records
client information
partner information

What the group claims

Sid Harvey Industries is a wholesale distributor of refrigeration, air conditioning, and heatin g equipment and parts for contractors in the United States. We will upload 740gb of corporate data soon. Detailed employee personal information (~500 ppl p assports, DLs, SSNs, personal financials, death certs, confidential agreements, credit cards an d so on), contracts and agreements, financials, clients and partners, etc.

Source

Indexed 13 hours ago

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