Latitude 33 Planning& Engineering Listed by Akira Ransomware Group

On December 17, 2025, the Akira ransomware group listed Latitude 33 Planning & Engineering on its leak site and announced plans to publish 53 GB of the company’s internal files. The California-based firm, which provides planning, engineering, and surveying services in San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City, had its employees’ passports, driver’s licenses, personal forms, detailed financial records, payment details, client files, and project data exfiltrated.

What Public Reporting Shows

Public reporting indicates the data was taken during a ransomware attack. The Akira leak page states the group will soon upload the full archive containing employee personal documents, financial spreadsheets, client project materials, and payment information. No exact number of individuals affected has been released, but the volume suggests records for current and former employees, contractors, and clients are included. Latitude 33 has not yet issued a public statement confirming the breach timeline or containment status.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When a company that handles government contracts, land development, or residential projects is breached, your personal information can be exposed even if you never directly hired them. If you or a family member worked there, lived in a surveyed neighborhood, or appeared in project files, the stolen passports, driver’s licenses, and financial forms can be used to open accounts, file fraudulent taxes, or impersonate you. Payment details and client files increase the risk of targeted scams that sound legitimate because they reference real projects or addresses tied to your home.

The Doxxing and Identity-Chain Risk

Leaked employee and client documents rarely stay isolated. A scanned driver’s license often links to an email address, which links to a reused password, which appears in gaming accounts or family cloud storage. Public reporting shows these credential leaks cascade into full identity chains that expose home addresses, children’s names, and social media handles. Once mapped, attackers can move from financial fraud to doxxing, harassment, or SIM-swapping that locks you out of your own accounts.

Akira’s Publicly Known Track Record

Public reporting attributes the Akira ransomware group with emerging in 2023. The group has targeted organizations across healthcare, education, manufacturing, and professional services. Its typical playbook involves initial access through compromised credentials or remote desktop tools, followed by claimed exfiltration of sensitive files before encryption. Akira then demands ransom and, if unpaid, publishes samples or full datasets on its leak site with countdown timers. The group’s extortion style focuses on both data exposure and operational disruption rather than solely encryption.

What to do

• Run a DoxxScan to map every link between your emails, phone numbers, handles, and real identity so you can see exactly what this leak connects to.
• Rotate any password you used at Latitude 33 or related vendor portals and switch to 2FA through an authenticator app instead of text messages.
• Enable continuous DoxxScan monitoring across 13.1B+ breach records and 100+ platforms so the next exposure is caught in hours rather than months.
• Cover the household with DoxxScan family protection that includes dependents and children’s gaming accounts, which often chain back to the same leaked addresses or parent emails.
• Let remediation specialists handle takedown requests for any exposed personal documents or broker listings that surface from this incident.

The incident shows how quickly professional services data can reach criminal marketplaces and fuel larger identity attacks. Protecting yourself means treating every breach as a link in a chain rather than a single event. Start your DoxxScan trial and combine it with prompt password changes and household coverage so you and your family stay ahead of the next wave of credential abuse and doxxing attempts.