A cyberattack stopped ZEGO's machines for six weeks — then came the insolvency

ZEGO Textilveredelungszentrum GmbH is an Aschaffenburg textile finisher: embroidery, sewing and printing on work, business and team clothing, plus storage and logistics for its customers. Around 60 people worked there — a single-site operation whose entire order book runs through its own IT.

On 29 March 2026 a cyberattack brought that IT down, and production stood still for almost six weeks. The type of attack was never disclosed — extortion was discussed in reporting, unconfirmed; what is documented is the outage itself: orders could not be processed, machines could not be fed. For a finisher that lives on delivery dates, six weeks is not a delay — it is a breach of contract.

In July 2026 the company filed for insolvency at the Aschaffenburg district court, which appointed Maximilian Maierhofer of the Ohly Zöller firm as preliminary insolvency administrator. Managing director Johannes Zenglein said the attack 'hurts a lot', insisted that insolvency is not necessarily the end of a company, and set the goals: restructure, stabilise economically, preserve jobs. Production is meant to continue through the proceedings.

The shape of the case: no strategic blunder, no failed collection — an external shock that a 60-person shop had no cushion for. Six weeks of downtime converted one IT incident into an insolvency filing.