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 16, 2026Steve Quick Jeweler listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Services sector, which has 396 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Steve Quick Jeweler 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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Steve Quick Jeweler

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 16, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Consumer Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 16, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Steve Quick Jeweler is a Chicagoland-based independent jewelry retailer that has been crafting and selling unique, handcrafted jewelry since 1986. The company specializes in engagement rings, wedding bands, and other jewelry pieces, with an emphasis on a personalized shopping experience. It operates as a small boutique jeweler serving the greater Chicago area.

Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
Address: Chicago metropolitan area (Chicagoland), Illinois, United States
Founded: 1986

Attack summary

Severity: high — Akira claims confirmed exfiltration of significant business data including client files, HR records, financials, and NDAs. Client PII and financial data from a retail jeweler constitute sensitive personal and commercial information, and the data is stated as pending publication, elevating risk beyond a mere listing.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated corporate data from Steve Quick Jeweler and states it will be published imminently; the data allegedly includes HR files, financial records, client files, contracts, NDAs, and partner files.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

HR files
Financial records
Client files
Contracts
NDAs
Partner files
General business files

What the group claims

Steve Quick Jeweler is a Chicagoland-based jeweler that has been offering unique, handcrafted jewelry since 1986. They specialize in engagement rings, wedding bands, and a variety of other jewelr y pieces, ensuring a personalized shopping experience for their c ustomers. We will upload corporate data soon. HR files, financials, client files, contracts, NDAs, partners files and and other business fil es.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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