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 1,616 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post May 20, 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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Construction sector, which has 415 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Dixon Electrical Systems & Contracting

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

100 employees

Records

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 23, 2026
Data leaked

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 2 months ago

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