AnswerPool

Cyber Incidents API: List 8-Ks disclosing material cybersecurity incidents (Item 1.05) — SEC EDGAR

List 8-Ks disclosing material cybersecurity incidents (Item 1.05) market-wide with company, time and links. Use for breach monitoring — security and insurance agents get the mandatory disclosures without reading the tape.

$0.02 per call — pay with prepaid card credits (Authorization: Bearer ck_live_…, packs from $1) or with USDC over x402: call it, get 402 with the price, retry signed. Failed calls are never charged.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/sec/8k/cyber — product id sec_8k_cyber_incident. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_8k_cyber_incident.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/cyber?limit=25"

# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/cyber?limit=25"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/cyber?limit=25 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_8k_cyber_incident

What does the answer look like?

A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_8k_cyber_incident.

as_of2026-08-31T14:00:00Z
index_started_at2026-08-27T00:00:00Z
since2026-08-01T00:00:00
count0
events(empty)
next_cursor2026-08-01T00:00:00
refresh_after2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z
The same sample as raw JSON
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
 "index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
 "since": "2026-08-01T00:00:00",
 "count": 0,
 "events": [],
 "next_cursor": "2026-08-01T00:00:00",
 "refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}

How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?

The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.

Method version 0.1.0 · serving cache 1 day · every response carries a result_id you can resolve at /v1/provenance.

When should you use it?

Security, insurance and vendor-risk monitoring.

What you skip building

When should you not use it?

Incident details — we serve the filing event and link.

Where else can you find this?