Verzinkerei Rentrop
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Full breach record for Verzinkerei Rentrop →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
verzinkerei-rentrop.de zoominfo.com/c/verzinkerei-rentrop-gmbh/1103509945 Verzinkerei Rentrop GmbH is a German industrial company founded in 1929 in Plettenberg, NRW, specializing in steel surface treatment — primarily hot-dip galvanizing, electrogalvanizing, and phosphatizing. The company also produces steel products such as protective grids, fencing, sheets, and profiles. After filing for insolvency in 2019, its assets were sold to Verzinkerei
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Apr 14, 2026
Claim posted
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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
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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.