Was Fechner Pump & Supply hit by ransomware?

Fechner Pump & Supply 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 Fechner Pump & Supply breach?

Akira published data attributed to Fechner Pump & Supply (~157 GB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Fechner Pump & Supply

Claimed by Akira · listed 5 months ago

157 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Jan 14, 2026
Data size: 157 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Fechner Pump & Supply is a distributor and service provider serving the oil and gas industry across Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The company has operated for over 33 years, offering a wide range of products and services to both independent producers and large corporations in the energy sector.

Industry: Oil & Gas Equipment Distribution & Supply
Address: Oklahoma and southern Kansas, United States

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The group claims exfiltration of 157 GB of data explicitly including employee SSNs and scanned personal documents (regulated PII at scale), combined with client and financial records, and the data is stated to be imminent for publication with disclosed status of data_published.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 157 GB of corporate data from Fechner Pump & Supply, including employee personally identifiable information (SSNs, addresses, phone numbers, emails, scans of personal documents), project files, client information, financial records, and contracts and agreements; the group states the data will be published imminently.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee SSNs
Employee addresses
Employee phone numbers
Employee emails
Scans of personal documents
Project files
Client information
Financial records
Contracts and agreements

What the group claims

Fechner Pump Supply has been serving the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma and southern Kansas for over 33 years, offering a wide r ange of products and services tailored to both independent produc ers and large corporations. We will upload 157gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal in formation (SSN, addresses, phones, emails, scans of personal docu ments and so on), projects, client information, financials, contr acts and agreements, etc.

Source

Indexed 5 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

January 14, 2026Fechner Pump & Supply listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 157 GB

Other recent disclosures by Akira

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Fechner Pump & Supply 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 Fechner Pump & Supply 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.