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

May 11, 2026Clarkson Walsh & Coulter listed by akiraon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Clarkson Walsh & Coulter is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Clarkson Walsh & Coulter

Claimed by akira · listed 10 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: akira
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: May 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Clarkson Walsh & Coulter is a law firm based in South Carolina that provides legal solutions and litigation services to individuals, corporations, and insurance carriers. The firm specializes in general liability, employment, medical malpractice, and commercial matters, handling cases in both State and Federal Court.

Industry: Legal Services
Address: South Carolina, USA

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The exfiltration includes regulated PII at scale (passports, driver's licenses), privileged legal documents, court and police records, and financial data belonging to clients of a law firm — encompassing both personally identifiable and legally privileged confidential information across a large dataset of 236 GB.

Akira claims to have exfiltrated approximately 236 GB of corporate data and has announced it will be published. The data allegedly includes client personal identification documents, contracts, confidential legal documents, employee information, and financial records.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client passports
Client driver's licenses
Contracts and agreements
Court records
Police reports
Legal confidential documents
Employee information
Financial records

What the group claims

Clarkson Walsh & Coulter provides innovative legal solutions and aggressive litigation services to clients of all sizes across South Carolina. The firm specializes in various areas including general liability, employment, medical malpractice, and commercial matters, representing indiv iduals, corporations, and insurance carriers in both State and Federal Court. We will upload 236gb of corporate data soon. Client personal information (passports, DLs, and s o on), contracts and agreements, lots of legal confidential docs (court records, police reports , etc), employee information, financials and so on.

Source

Indexed 10 days ago

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