Was Murray's Cheese hit by ransomware?

Murray's Cheese was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Akira ransomware group?

Akira is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Murray's Cheese breach?

Akira published data attributed to Murray's Cheese, around 300 employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Murray's Cheese

Claimed by Akira · listed 3 months ago

300 employees

Records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 11, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Mar 11, 2026
Records: 300 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Murray's Cheese is the oldest cheese shop in New York City, founded in 1940 in Greenwich Village. The company specializes in premium and specialty cheese retail, operating both B2C and B2B channels across multiple locations. Murray's is well-known for its curated selection of artisan cheeses and related gourmet products.

Industry: Specialty Food Retail (Cheese & Gourmet Products)
Address: 254 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014
Employees: 300+
Founded: 1940

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of regulated PII at scale (passports, DLs, DOB for 300+ employees) combined with financial and client data; the disclosed status is data_published, indicating the threat of imminent public release of sensitive identity documents constituting a critical personal data breach.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Murray's Cheese, including detailed employee personal identity documents (passports, driver's licenses, dates of birth), financial records, client files, contracts, and internal confidential files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee dates of birth
Driver's licenses
Financial records
Client files
Contracts and agreements
Project files
Internal confidential documents

What the group claims

Murray's Cheese, founded in 1940 in Greenwich Village, is the old est cheese shop in New York City. The company specializes in reta il grocery with a focus on premium cheese products. Murray's has earned recognition for its quality offerings and has expanded to multiple locations. The business operates both B2B and B2C models , providing specialty cheese and related products to consumers an d businesses alike. We will upload corporate data soon. Very detailed employee (more than 300 employees) information (passports, DOB, DLs, and so on), financials, clients files, contracts and agreements, projects, i nternal confidential files and so on.

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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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 1,648 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post June 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 11, 2026Murray's Cheese listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Records: 300 employees

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,648 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Murray's Cheese is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Murray's Cheese appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Akira's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.