Was Nicholas & Tangeman hit by ransomware?

Nicholas & Tangeman 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 Nicholas & Tangeman breach?

Akira published data attributed to Nicholas & Tangeman (~100 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Nicholas & Tangeman

Claimed by Akira · listed 3 months ago

100 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 4, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Mar 4, 2026
Data size: 100 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nicholas & Tangeman, LLC is a general practice law firm based in Laramie, Wyoming, serving clients across Wyoming and Colorado. The firm provides a broad range of legal services including civil litigation, criminal law, personal injury, estate planning, and corporate business planning.

Industry: Legal Services — General Practice Law Firm
Address: Laramie, Wyoming, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The exfiltration claim covers over 100 GB of highly sensitive regulated data including PII (passports, driver's licenses), medical records, and privileged legal documents (court files, NDAs, police reports) belonging to third-party clients at scale, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated over 100 GB of data from Nicholas & Tangeman, LLC, including clients' personal identification documents, medical records, NDAs, police reports, and court files, with publication of the data described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client passports
Driver's licenses
Medical records
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
Police reports
Court files
Confidential client files

What the group claims

Nicholas & Tangeman, LLC is a general practice law firm based in Laramie, Wyoming, serving clients in Wyoming and Colorado. The fi rm offers a wide range of legal services including civil litigati on, criminal law, personal injury, estate planning, and corporate business planning. We will upload over 100gb of corporate data soon. Lots of clients ' personal files (passports, DLs, medical record), NDA, police re ports, court files, and other confidential files.

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 4, 2026Nicholas & Tangeman listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 100 GB

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

Geographically, Nicholas & Tangeman 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 Nicholas & Tangeman 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.