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 19, 2026Angus-Young Associates listed by Akiraon the group's public leak site

Data size: 50 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, Angus-Young Associates is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 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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Angus-Young Associates

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

50 GB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Mar 19, 2026
Data size: 50 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Angus-Young Associates is a full-service architectural, landscape architecture, engineering, and interior design firm with over 60 years of experience. The firm provides high-quality design solutions, construction documentation, bid management, and construction services across a diverse range of project types. It operates in the United Kingdom and is known for integrated, collaborative design approaches.

Industry: Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Engineering Design

Attack summary

Severity: high — 50 GB of confirmed exfiltrated data includes employee PII (W-9 forms containing SSNs and tax information), HR records, financial data, and client data — a significant and sensitive business data breach with imminent publication, though no indication of government/medical-scale regulated data to push it to critical.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 50 GB of corporate data from Angus-Young Associates, including employee personal information (W-9 forms, document scans), HR data, financial records, client data, contracts and agreements, and project files, with publication of the data stated as imminent.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal information (W-9 forms)
Document scans
HR data
Financial records
Client data
Contracts and agreements
Project files

What the group claims

Angus-Young is a full-service architectural, landscape architectu re, engineering, and interior design firm that offers high-qualit y design solutions, construction documentation, bid management, a nd construction services. With over 60 years of experience, the f irm collaborates on a diverse range of project types, ensuring in formed decisions and integrated designs. We will upload 50gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal inf ormation (w9 forms, docs scans), HR data, financials, a bit of cl ient data, contracts and agreements, projects, etc.

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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