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AERO-COATING GmbH

listed as Aero-Coating · Claimed by Payouts King · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 30, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Payouts King
Status
Data leaked
Country
Germany
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Apr 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

AERO-COATING GmbH is an independent, EN 9100-certified surface coating service provider headquartered in Wismar, Germany, specialising in coatings for safety-critical and structurally critical components in the aerospace and defence sectors. Founded in 1994, the company offers over five coating processes including IVD aluminium, vacuum cadmium (PVD), resin-based coatings, titanium anodising, and aerospace-spec painting, serving more than 100 customers domestically and internationally. Its location near the Hamburg aerospace cluster supports supply to major OEMs and defence contractors.

Industry
Aerospace & Defence Surface Coating Services
Address
Wismar, Germany
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is an EN 9100-certified aerospace and defence supplier providing MIL-SPEC-compliant coatings for mission-critical and structurally critical components. A confirmed data_published status involving a defence-sector contractor handling sensitive technical, contractual, and specification data relating to military aerospace components meets the threshold for critical severity due to the national security and supply-chain implications.

The ransomware group 'payoutsking' claims to have attacked AERO-COATING GmbH and lists the disclosure status as data_published, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. The specific data categories and volume are not described in the leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Business data (unspecified)
  • Potentially proprietary coating process documentation
  • Potentially customer and contract records
  • Potentially defence/military specification compliance data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

N/A

The leak post

captured from the group's site
PayoutsKing PayoutsKing Blog News About Partnership Welcome PK MAIN TOX: 535F403A2EA2DC71A392E18D7DB77FEF70845C0B7E5B9114CD30D301870304379C3547E324E2 Company Create Website Country Revenue Employees Actions Data Views Status H****l 2026-04-21 t****.com USA $786M ** Exfiltrated 860GB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 F****p 2026-04-14 fl****.com USA $2.7B ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 1.1TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 H****o 2026-04-01 has****.com USA $TBD ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 4.8TB 0 Declared 1d 02:08 A****y 2026-03-31 ape****.com USA $309M ** Exfiltrated & Encrypted 3TB 0 Declared 2d 00:04 NTN Bearing Corporation of America 2026-04-24 ntnamericas.com USA $1.5B 4700 Exfiltrated 596GB 420 Proof 6d 02:09 About company: NTN Bearing is a producer of ball and roller bearings, with plants around the globe and a strong, domestic manufacturing network. Data description: Confidential, Employees' PII (Personally Identifiable Information), Correspondence, Financial, Engineering, Contracts, Agreements, NDA, FULL INFO SunSource 2026-04-20 sun-source.com USA $2B 3500 Exfiltrated 700GB 3401 Disclosed About company: SunSource is a distribution company, providing products, services, and information in…

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About Payouts King

Payouts King Group. We are not RaaS. No affiliates are accepted. We use Tox messaging protocol. The group has been linked to 100 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 7, 2025; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: payoutsking.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 30, 2026Aero-Coating listed by Payouts Kingon the group's public leak site

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Aero-Coating is reported in Germany, a country with 379 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Payouts King means Aero-Coating 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 Payouts King'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.