Penco Products
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Full breach record for Penco Products →Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing
This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
pencoproducts.com Penco Products US metal manufacturer founded in 1869, now based in Greenville, North Carolina, making steel lockers, shelving, pallet racks and garment dispensers at its 375,000 square foot ISO certified plant in Hamilton. It is part of the IMC industrial group and has around 200 employees, up to 350 in summer peaks. Its lockers are an American standard in schools, gyms, hospitals and military facilities, with new smart locker lines for contactless pickup. Led by CEO Craig Atwater since 2021, it sells through a national distributor network with QuickShip warehouses across the country. Strengths are 157 years of brand trust, full US vertical production and diversification into school furniture.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Oct 23, 2026
Claim posted
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.
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thegentlemen
According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.