---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001079973-25-001631"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JCTC"
cik: "0000885307"
company_name: "JEWETT CAMERON TRADING CO LTD"
filed_at: "2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:10:05.138379+00:00"
event_type: "cyber"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jewett-Cameron discloses cyber incident with data exfiltration and extortion demand

## Summary
- Threat actor accessed JCTC IT systems, deployed encryption software, and exfiltrated data including images of screens and video meetings.
- Company took offline systems as precaution; operations may be materially impacted, affecting Q1 fiscal 2026 financial results.
- Threat actors exfiltrated images of video meetings and computer screens; demanded payment to prevent release.
- No evidence of PII compromise of employees, customers, suppliers, or vendors yet; investigation ongoing.
- Company engaged external experts, notified law enforcement, and expects cyber insurance to cover remediation costs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001079973-25-001631
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JCTC
- cik: 0000885307
- company_name: JEWETT CAMERON TRADING CO LTD
- filed_at: 2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: cyber
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885307/000107997325001631/0001079973-25-001631-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885307/000107997325001631/jctc_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-25-001631
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001079973-25-001631.txt

## Key facts
- Cybersecurity Incidents
  JEWETT CAMERON TRADING CO LTD disclosed a cybersecurity incident: unauthorized access and deployment of encryption and monitoring software by a third party to a portion of the Company's internal corporate IT systems, with exfiltration of images of video meetings and computer screens. Impact: operations may be materially impacted, potentially impacting financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026; disruptions and limitation of access to business applications. Materiality is still being assessed. Discovered 2025-10-15.
  - Nature: unauthorized access and deployment of encryption and monitoring software by a third party to a portion of the Company's internal corporate IT systems, with exfiltration of images of video meetings and computer screens
  - Impact: operations may be materially impacted, potentially impacting financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026; disruptions and limitation of access to business applications
  - Materiality: assessing
  - Discovery: 2025-10-15
  source text: On October 15, 2025, Jewett-Cameron Trading Co. Ltd. (the “Company”) learned that a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to portions of the Company’s information technology (“IT”) environment and claimed to have unlawfully accessed certain Company information and data.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885307/000107997325001631/0001079973-25-001631-index.htm

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