Skip to main content
Darkfield

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

BAUTZ Maschinen- und Stahlbau GmbH

listed as bautz-maschinenbau.de · Claimed by Safepay · listed 13 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 15, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Safepay
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jun 15, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

BAUTZ Maschinen- und Stahlbau GmbH is a family-owned German manufacturer founded in 1960 and based in Mönchengladbach. The company specializes in precision machining (turning, milling), steel fabrication, welding, and surface treatment services, operating as a full-service provider with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification.

Industry
Precision Machining & Steel Fabrication
Address
Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Str. 2, 41199 Mönchengladbach-Güdderath, Germany
Founded
1960

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data published status confirms exfiltration and public disclosure, but no specific data inventory, proof files, or sensitive data categories (PII, financial, IP) are detailed in the available post excerpt. Manufacturing company data exposure without evidence of regulated/sensitive content warrants medium severity.

The SafePay ransomware group claims to have attacked BAUTZ and published data from the breach. No specific details on encryption scope or exfiltration nature are provided in the truncated leak post.

medium

What the group claims

Founded in 1960 by Alfred Bautz, the family-owned enterprise has developed over three generations into a specialized supplier of precision …

Sources

Source

Indexed 13 hours ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

Is this your supplier? Your competitor? You?

Pro plans monitor your domain, corporate emails, and crypto wallets across every new ransomware leak-site post, breach dump and Telegram callout — alerts within 5 minutes.

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 592 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post June 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 15, 2026bautz-maschinenbau.de listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 592 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full safepay dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,674 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, bautz-maschinenbau.de is reported in Germany, a country with 378 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means bautz-maschinenbau.de 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.