Was D3 Embedded hit by ransomware?

D3 Embedded 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 D3 Embedded breach?

Akira published data attributed to D3 Embedded (~415 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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D3 Embedded

Claimed by Akira · listed 3 months ago

415 GB

Data size

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: Technology
Listed on leak site: Mar 11, 2026
Data size: 415 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

D3 Embedded is a U.S.-based company specializing in end-to-end solutions for performance-critical embedded systems, integrating sensors, connectivity, embedded processing, and AI. Their product portfolio includes camera modules, radar sensors, and various boards and cards. Their solutions are targeted at robotics and autonomous machine applications.

Industry: Embedded Systems & AI Edge Computing

Attack summary

Severity: high — 415 GB of exfiltrated data has been announced for publication and includes proprietary engineering projects, agreements, and licenses from a company working on defense-adjacent autonomous systems and embedded AI — representing significant business and potentially sensitive IP exposure. No confirmed PII or regulated personal data at scale was mentioned, keeping this at high rather than critical.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 415 GB of corporate data from D3 Embedded, including project files, related documents, agreements, and licenses, with publication of the data described as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Project files and documentation
Corporate agreements
Licenses
Engineering/design documents

What the group claims

D3 Embedded is a U.S.-based company specializing in the developme nt of end-to-end solutions for performance-critical embedded syst ems, integrating sensors, connectivity, embedded processing, and AI. Their product offerings include camera modules, radar sensors , and various boards and cards designed for applications in robot ics and autonomous machines. We will upload 415gb of corporate data soon. Lots of projects and related documents, agreements, licenses 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, 2026D3 Embedded listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 415 GB

Other recent disclosures by Akira

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,526 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, D3 Embedded 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 D3 Embedded 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.