Disclosure context

About Lorenz

Lorenz is a ransomware group that emerged in January 2020 and operates primarily for financial gain, having claimed approximately 78 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a focus on English-speaking nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Lorenz primarily targets healthcare, finance, automotive, construction, and retail sectors, suggesting they may opportunistically attack organizations with valuable data and limited security resources rather than following a specific geopolitical agenda. While detailed technical analysis of their attack methodology has not been extensively published by major security firms like Mandiant or government agencies such as CISA, the group appears to follow typical ransomware deployment patterns common to financially-motivated cybercriminal organizations. Public documentation of specific high-profile campaigns, notable victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Lorenz remains limited in open-source intelligence reporting. Based on available victim data extending beyond 2020, the group appears to have maintained some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status have not been widely published by authoritative sources in the threat intelligence community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 12, 2020; most recent post December 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 20, 2023Hopsteiner listed by Lorenzon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Food & Agriculture sector, which has 13 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Hopsteiner is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Hopsteiner

Claimed by Lorenz · listed 3 years ago

39m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 20, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lorenz
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Food & Agriculture
Listed on leak site: Feb 20, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Hopsteiner is one of the world's oldest and largest hop trading and processing companies, founded in 1845 and headquartered in New York, NY. The company supplies hops and hop products to breweries globally, operating farms, processing facilities, and trading offices across the United States and Europe. It serves both craft and commercial brewers with a portfolio of hop varieties and hop-derived products.

Industry: Hop Trading & Processing (Food & Agriculture)
Address: 45 Broadway, New York, NY 10006, United States
Employees: 201-500
Founded: 1845

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning Lorenz has confirmed exfiltration and public release of company data. While no regulated medical or government data is indicated, significant business data from a major agricultural trading company — likely including financial, contractual, and employee records — has been exposed.

The Lorenz ransomware group has listed Hopsteiner under a 'data_published' status, indicating that data exfiltrated from the company has been published on their leak site. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the captured post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business documents
Employee records
Financial records
Customer/supplier contracts
Internal communications

Sources

Victim sitehopsteiner.com

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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