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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000833444-23-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JCI"
cik: "0000833444"
company_name: "Johnson Controls International plc"
filed_at: "2023-11-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T05:55:51.789044+00:00"
event_type: "cyber"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Johnson Controls reports ransomware attack delayed fiscal 2023 Q4 earnings release

## Summary
- Unauthorized access and ransomware deployed by third party to internal IT; detected Sept 23, 2023.
- Disruptions to systems supporting financial reporting; expects delay in FY2023 Q4 and year-end results.
- Expects to report results by December 14, 2023, within Rule 12b-25 period for Form 10-K.
- Restoration largely completed; no observed impact to digital products OpenBlue and Metasys.
- Investigation ongoing; believes unauthorized activity contained.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000833444-23-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JCI
- cik: 0000833444
- company_name: Johnson Controls International plc
- filed_at: 2023-11-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: cyber
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344423000038/0000833444-23-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344423000038/jci-20231113.htm

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