Was Metalware Corporation hit by ransomware?

Metalware Corporation was listed by the thegentlemen ransomware operation (Canada), 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 thegentlemen ransomware group?

thegentlemen 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 Metalware Corporation breach?

thegentlemen published data attributed to Metalware Corporation. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Metalware Corporation

Claimed by Thegentlemen · listed 4 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 26, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Thegentlemen
Status: Data leaked
Country: Canada
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Sep 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Metalware Corporation is a Canadian manufacturer of industrial steel shelving and storage systems, based in Montreal, Quebec, and family-owned since the early 1950s. The company is the inventor of boltless ('No-Bolt') shelving and produces a range of warehouse storage solutions including the Interlok line, E-Series widespan shelving, and high-bay systems, serving North American distributors and major clients including government agencies, automotive, and retail sectors.

Industry: Industrial Steel Shelving & Storage Systems Manufacturing
Address: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Founded: 1954

Attack summary

Severity: low — Post is announcement/listing only with no proof files, no stated data exfiltration, and no operational impact claimed. No evidence of actual breach methodology or data compromise.

The leak post announces the victim but provides no details on the attack method (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or specific data compromised. The post contains only company background information and no claims regarding data theft or operational disruption.

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What the group claims

metalware.ca zoominfo.com/c/metalware-corp/57640606 Metalware Corporation is a Canadian manufacturer of industrial steel shelving and storage systems, based in Montreal, Quebec, and in business since the early 1950s. The company is best known as the inventor of boltless ("No-Bolt") shelving, patented in 1954 by founders Irving and Ben Levitt — a design that became the industry standard for order-picking warehouses. Still family-owned and led by second/third-generation owners (President Mark Levitt), Metalware produces its flagship Interlok No-Bolt line, E-Series widespan shelving, multi-tier/high-bay systems, shelf-supported mezzanines, and modular drawer solutions at its Montreal plant, selling through a network of authorized distributors across North America. Its reference clients include the Government of Canada (Canada Revenue Agency, Department of National Defence), Porsche, and Walmart

Sources

Victim sitemetalware.ca

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About thegentlemen

thegentlemen is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their broad targeting of commercial sectors. The group has documented 267 victims across multiple countries, with primary focus on the United States, Thailand, France, Brazil, and India. Their targeting strategy demonstrates a preference for high-value sectors including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or major security research firms, specific details regarding their country of origin, operational structure, attack methodologies, encryption techniques, and whether they employ ransomware-as-a-service models remain unclear. The relatively high victim count of 267 in a short operational timeframe since September 2025 suggests either an aggressive campaign pace or potential inflation of victim numbers through affiliate operations, though without corroborating intelligence reports, the group's exact operational capabilities and notable campaigns cannot be definitively established. Current intelligence indicates the group remains active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat profiling requires additional validated reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 889 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2025; most recent post September 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: the gentlemen.

Timeline of this disclosure

September 26, 2026Metalware Corporation listed by thegentlemen on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by thegentlemen

thegentlemen has been linked to 889 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Metalware Corporation is reported in Canada, a country with 320 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by thegentlemen means Metalware Corporation 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, CCCS (Canada), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on thegentlemen'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.