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 20, 2026INP Schweiz listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 9 GB

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, INP Schweiz is reported in Switzerland, a country with 78 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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INP Schweiz

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

9 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 20, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: Switzerland
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 20, 2026
Data size: 9 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

INP Schweiz AG is a Swiss engineering firm that partners with leading companies in the energy generation and transmission sector. The company provides comprehensive engineering services including concept development, planning, commissioning, and testing. It has documented contractual relationships with major industry players such as Siemens.

Industry: Energy Engineering Services

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 9 GB of sensitive corporate data including employee PII (passports, driver's licenses), HR records, financial data, and client/contract information from a critical-infrastructure-adjacent energy engineering firm; data has been announced for imminent publication.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 9 GB of corporate data from INP Schweiz AG, including employee personal identification documents (passports, driver's licenses), HR files, financial records, client files, and contracts with Siemens and other partners; the data is described as forthcoming for publication.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee passports
Employee driver's licenses
HR files
Financial records
Client files
Contracts (including with Siemens)

What the group claims

INP Schweiz AG partners with leading companies in the energy gene ration and transmission sector, providing comprehensive engineeri ng services that include concept development, planning, commissio ning, and testing. We will upload 9gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal info rmation (passports, DLs and os on), HR files, financials, client files, contracts with Siemens and others, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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