Was meterex.com hit by ransomware?

meterex.com was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (Germany), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

safepay is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the meterex.com breach?

safepay published data attributed to meterex.com. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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meterex.com

Claimed by Safepay · listed 8 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 15, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: Germany
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Sep 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Karl Kuntze (GmbH & Co.), operating as meterex, is a German manufacturer of measuring instruments and customized promotional products headquartered in Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1920, the company specializes in folding rules, measuring tapes, spirit levels, and rulers that can be personalized with company logos and advertising messages for B2B customers.

Industry: Measuring Instruments & Promotional Products Manufacturing
Address: Industriegebiet Ost, Poensgenstr. 17, D-40764 Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Founded: 1920

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post provides only an announcement and company background with a note that 'the link will be added soon'. No proof files, screenshots, or specific data inventory is documented. No operational disruption is stated. The disclosure status is 'data_published' but no accessible proof or data sample is evident in the truncated post.

The SafePay group claims to have accessed and exfiltrated data from meterex. No specific data categories or operational impact are detailed in the available leak post excerpt.

low

What the group claims

The company is headquartered in Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, and is legally registered as Karl Kuntze (GmbH & Co.), HRA 16336 …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Karl Kuntze (GmbH & Co.), operating under the meterex brand, is a German manufacturer and supplier of measuring instruments and customized promotional products.
The company is headquartered in Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, and is legally registered as Karl Kuntze (GmbH & Co.), HRA 16336 at the Düsseldorf Local Court. Oliver Kuntze serves as CEO.The company has roots dating back to 1920, when Karl and Richard Kuntze founded the original business in Solingen. Over its history, meterex developed from metal finishing and measuring-tape production into a specialist manufacturer of advertising-oriented measuring tools. Its product range includes folding rules, measuring tapes, spirit levels, rulers and other measuring instruments, which can be customized with company logos, graphics and advertising messages.
The link will be added soon.

Sources

Victim sitemeterex.com
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/meterexcom/

Source

Indexed 8 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 779 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post September 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 15, 2026meterex.com listed by safepay on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 779 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,577 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, meterex.com is reported in Germany, a country with 393 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means meterex.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-Bund (Germany), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.