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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-089345"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001431959"
company_name: "META MATERIALS INC."
filed_at: "2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T13:44:32.035950+00:00"
event_type: "cyber"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Meta Materials discloses cyber incident by ex-executive; Canada sub files bankruptcy

## Summary
- Former executive officer deliberately deactivated website, disrupting IT systems including email; restored July 29 but still stressed.
- Subsidiary Metamaterial Technologies Canada Inc. filed for bankruptcy July 26; Grant Thornton appointed trustee for wind-down.
- Company has not yet determined if cyber incident will materially impact financial condition or results.
- No evidence of unauthorized access to IP, customer, or stakeholder proprietary information from the incident.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-089345
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001431959
- company_name: META MATERIALS INC.
- filed_at: 2024-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: cyber
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.05, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017024089345/0000950170-24-089345-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017024089345/mmat-20240725.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-089345.txt

## Key facts
- Cybersecurity Incidents
  META MATERIALS INC. disclosed a cybersecurity incident: A former executive officer deliberately de-activated and cancelled the renewal of the Company’s website, significantly impacting IT systems including email communications. Impact: Website was offline for a period of time and communications delayed; the Company continues to evaluate unauthorized access to sensitive and confidential information, but other than these disruptions, the incident does not appear to have had a material impact on intellectual property or customer/stak. Materiality is still being assessed. Discovered 2024-07-25.
  - Nature: A former executive officer deliberately de-activated and cancelled the renewal of the Company’s website, significantly impacting IT systems including email communications.
  - Impact: Website was offline for a period of time and communications delayed; the Company continues to evaluate unauthorized access to sensitive and confidential information, but other than these disruptions, the incident does not appear to have had a material impact on intellectual property or customer/stak
  - Materiality: assessing
  - Discovery: 2024-07-25
  source text: The Company has not yet determined whether the incident is reasonably likely to materially impact the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017024089345/0000950170-24-089345-index.htm

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