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American Vintage Home / Briggs Plumbing Products / Genco Manufacturing / Associates of Clifton Park

Q: What data was leaked in the American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom... breach?

Akira published data attributed to American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom.... Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

listed as American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom... · Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedApr 3, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

This leak post covers multiple distinct companies: American Vintage Home provides HVAC and plumbing services for older homes on Chicago's North Shore; Briggs Plumbing Products, Inc. (founded 1908, Goose Creek, SC) manufactures enameled steel and vitreous china plumbing fixtures for residential and commercial markets; Genco Manufacturing produces American-made utility truck beds; and Associates of Clifton Park is an insurance products brokerage offering life, Medicare, long-term care, and group disability coverage.

Industry: HVAC, Plumbing Manufacturing & Services; Insurance Services
Address: Briggs Plumbing Products: 100 Briggs Drive, Goose Creek, SC 29445; American Vintage Home: Chicago North Shore area, IL; Associates of Clifton Park: Clifton Park, NY (inferred from name)
Founded: 1908

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of regulated sensitive data including medical information, PII, HR records, and financial data across multiple companies, with data already published by the threat actor.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 11 GB of data from multiple companies, encompassing personal employee data, HR files, medical information, client information, project files, confidential documents, accounting/financials, and contracts. The status is listed as data_published, indicating the stolen data has been released.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal employee data
HR files
Medical information
Client information
Project files
Confidential files
Accounting and financial records
Contracts and agreements

What the group claims

We obtained about 11gb of data of the following companies: American Vintage Home specializes in heating, air conditioning, a nd plumbing services tailored for vintage homes in the Chicago No rth Shore area. Their expert technicians focus on preserving the charm of older homes while providing modern HVAC solutions, inclu ding high-velocity and ductless systems. Briggs Plumbing Products, Inc. manufactures and markets enameled steel products, vitreous china, and faucets for residential, hosp itality, and commercial applications. Founded in 1908 and headqua rtered in Goose Creek, SC. Genco Manufacturing specializes in high-quality, American-made ut ility truck beds, offering a range of products including the Genc o Royal Utility Truck Bed and Genco Sporting Flatbed Body. American Vintage Home specializes in heating, air conditioning, a nd plumbing services tailored for vintage homes in the Chicago No rth Shore area. Associates of Clifton Park offers a range of insurance products i ncluding long-term care insurance, Medicare supplements, life ins urance, and group disability insurance. You will find personal employee personal data, HR files, medical information, client information, project files, confidential file s, accounting and financials, contracts and agreements and so on.

Source

Indexed 2 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

April 3, 2026American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom... listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom... is reported in United States, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Akira means American Vintage Home, Briggs Plumbing Products, Genco Manufacturing, American Vintage Hom... 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.