Verzinkerei Rentrop
About the organisation
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
What the listing means
Verzinkerei Rentrop appeared on the thegentlemen leak site on 14 April 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has published 134 claims in the last 30 days and remains active.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing Verzinkerei Rentrop as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on verzinkerei-rentrop.de, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Manufacturing organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/VmVyemlua2VyZWkgUmVudHJvcEB0aGVnZW50bGVtZW4=