Zinkan Enterprises
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Full breach record for Zinkan Enterprises →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
zinkanenterprises.com Zinkan Enterprises is a private US environmental services company founded in 1983 in Hunt Valley, Ohio, operating in water treatment, pond and lake management, oil and gas chemicals and waste management. With 45 to 75 employees and estimated revenue of 5 to 20 million dollars, it owns several brands including Pace Products, the creator of Freeze Free, the world's first anti-freeze pond coating dating back to the 1960s. Its Crystal Clear division manages ponds and water features for prestigious clients including Walt Disney World golf courses and the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. Led by founder Thomas Zinkan, the company offers full-cycle solutions from chemical products to fountain equipment and contract pond maintenance. Core strengths are 42 years of experience, a unique patented anti-freeze technology and diversified revenue across four environmental service verticals.
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Oct 26, 2026
Claim posted
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No filing yet · watching
Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.
Claim → filing
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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.