Was Cox Design & Metal Fabrication hit by ransomware?

Cox Design & Metal Fabrication was listed by the Akira ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Akira ransomware group?

Akira is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication breach?

Akira published data attributed to Cox Design & Metal Fabrication. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Cox Design & Metal Fabrication

Claimed by Akira · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedMar 31, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Mar 31, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cox Design and Metal Fabrication, Inc. is a US-based company specializing in custom metal design and fabrication services, including aluminum fabrication, architectural steel design, and custom food truck manufacturing. The company operates in the manufacturing sector and serves both commercial and architectural clients. No further details on scale or location are publicly confirmed.

Industry: Custom Metal Fabrication & Architectural Steelwork

Attack summary

Severity: high — The group claims exfiltration of ~20 GB of sensitive business data including employee PII, financials, NDAs, and contracts. Employee personal documents may constitute regulated PII. Data publication is stated as forthcoming, indicating a credible and significant disclosure of both personal and confidential business information.

The Akira ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated approximately 20 GB of corporate data from Cox Design and Metal Fabrication, Inc., including employee personal documents, financial records, project files, contracts, agreements, and NDAs, with publication of the data described as imminent.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Employee personal documents
Financial records
Project files
Contracts and agreements
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)

What the group claims

Cox Design and Metal Fabrication, Inc. specializes in custom meta l design and fabrication, offering a wide range of services inclu ding aluminum fabrication, architectural steel design, and custom food trucks. We will upload 20gb of corporate data soon. Employee personal doc ument, financials, projects, contracts and agreements, NDA, proje cts, etc.

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

March 31, 2026Cox Design & Metal Fabrication 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, Cox Design & Metal Fabrication 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 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication 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.