Ransomware victim disclosure

Hal Otey Financial

Claimed by akira · listed 10 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 3, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hal Otey Financial is a financial services firm offering wealth management, financial planning, retirement planning, investment management, estate planning, and tax planning services. No additional public information is available.

Industry: Wealth Management & Financial Planning

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of highly sensitive regulated data including PII at scale (SSNs, government-issued IDs, health records, insurance information) affecting financial services clients. This includes multiple categories of protected information under HIPAA, FCRA, and state privacy laws.

The Akira group claims to have exfiltrated corporate and client data, including personal identification documents (passports, driver's licenses), social security numbers, health and insurance files, contracts, agreements, and detailed financial records. Data has been published.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

passports
driver's licenses
social security numbers
health files
insurance files
contracts and agreements
detailed financials
projects

What the group claims

Hal Otey Financial offers a range of financial services including wealth management, financial planning, retirement planning, investment management, estate planning, and tax planning. We will upload corporate data soon. Lots client data (passports, DLs, social security numbers, health and insurance files and so on), contracts and agreements, detailed financials, projects, etc.

Source

Indexed 10 hours 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 1,634 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 26, 2023; most recent post June 3, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: Megazord.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 3, 2026Hal Otey Financial listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.