Was Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting hit by ransomware?

Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting 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 Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting breach?

Akira published data attributed to Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting, around 100 employees records. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting

Claimed by Akira · listed 4 months ago

100 employees

Records

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 23, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Construction
Listed on leak site: Mar 23, 2026
Records: 100 employees

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting is a full-service electrical contracting firm based in the United States. The company serves industrial and commercial clients, providing installation, preventative maintenance (including Infrared Thermography), telecommunications, fiber, CATV, fire alarm, security, and Building Automation Systems (BAS) services.

Industry: Electrical Contracting & Systems Integration
Employees: 100+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated PII at scale — including government-issued identity documents (passports, DLs) and payment card data for 100+ individuals — combined with financial and contractual business records, meeting the threshold for critical severity.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated corporate data including personal information (passports, driver's licenses, credit card details) for more than 100 employees, as well as financial records, contracts, and agreements, with data publication described as imminent.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Driver's licenses
Credit card details
Financial records
Contracts and agreements
Corporate data

What the group claims

Dixon Electrical is a one-stop, full service electrical contracti ng firm that installs industrial work, as well as any size commer cial project. The company provides preventative maintenance, incl uding Infrared Thermography, and install all levels of telecommun ications, fiber, CATV, sound, Information Transport Systems (ITS) , security, fire alarm and Building Automation Systems (BAS), as well as service work. We will upload corporate data soon. Detailed employee personal in formation (passports, DLs, credit cards details for more than 100 employees and so on), financials, contracts and agreements, etc.

Source

Indexed 4 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 1,672 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 23, 2026Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Records: 100 employees

Other recent disclosures by Akira

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 988 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting 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, CISA (United States), 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, 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.