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VictimsThe Midland Theatre

The Midland Theatre

claimed by AkiraHospitality and TourismUnited Kingdomhigh · Confirmed exfiltration of multiple sensitive…
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What this is

A claim by the operator that it has published the data.

No statement from the organisation is on record here. We index the listing; we never host the data.

Corroboration
not recorded

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Timeline
  1. Listed · Jun 10, 2026
  2. Data published · date unknown: the post does not say
Leak-post captureJun 10, 2026post text missingscreenshot missingverified missing
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PostPost URL not recorded for this row.
What the operator wrote
The Midland Theatre originally opened in December of 1928 in Newark, Ohio. The theatre draws te ns of thousands of visitors each year to a wide array of programming from family-friendly event s and holiday specials to top artists in every genre. We will upload corporate data soon. Employee personal information (w-9 forms and other docs), f inancials, credit cards, client, partners and guests information, NDAs, etc.

From the feed's summary of the post; we hold no capture of our own yet.

Size claimed
unknown
the post states no size
Records claimed
unknown
the post states no count
Ransom · deadline
not stated
we show unknown, never zero
Data the operator says was taken
Employee W-9 formsEmployee personal informationFinancial recordsCredit card dataClient informationPartner informationGuest informationNDAs and contracts

Extracted from the post text by the enrichment model; each item traces to a sentence in the capture.

Attack summary

The akira group claims to have exfiltrated corporate data including employee personal information (W-9 forms and other documents), financial records, credit card data, client/partner/guest information, and NDAs. The group states intent to publish this data.

Severity high: Confirmed exfiltration of multiple sensitive data categories including PII (employee W-9s and personal info), financial data, credit cards, and client/guest information. Data has been published per disclosed status. Operational disruption to a cultural institution.

If this is your organisation
  1. Assume credentials were taken even where the post names none: reset, revoke sessions, enforce a second factor.
  2. Open the incident with NCSC and your regulator before data is published, not after.
  3. Watch the listing: a tracked domain is re-checked against every new post and you are paged when this one changes status or another operator names the organisation.

Method: the row comes from the operator's post, listed by an independent tracker and checked against our own Tor capture of the leak site. We publish the listing, the screenshot and the claim text; we do not download, host or redistribute leaked data. A post that changes is re-captured and this page updates.

Updated 4 months ago

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 1,770 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post October 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 10, 2026The Midland Theatre listed by Akira on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Akira

Akira has been linked to 1,770 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Akira dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, which has 456 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, The Midland Theatre is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 386 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means The Midland Theatre 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.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC (United Kingdom), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • 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, recording every new disclosure and the moment the operator says the data was released. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication, listed by an independent tracker (RansomLook) and checked against our own capture. 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.