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Item 8.01 Other Events On August 29, 2025, Sinqia S.A. (Sinqia), a Brazilian subsidiary of EVERTEC, Inc. (Evertec or the Company), identified unauthorized activity in its environment of the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) real-time payment system known as Pix. Upon detecting the incident, and in accordance with its incident response protocol, Sinqia halted transaction processing in its Pix environment and began working with outside cybersecurity forensics experts. Subsequently, the BCB informed Sinqia that it would not be permitted to resume processing transactions in the Brazilian Payments System (SPB) and Pix until the BCB reviews and approves the actions taken. Sinqia communicated promptly with federal and state law enforcement authorities in Brazil and the financial institution customers using its Pix environment. This matter affects a single application in Brazil, and no other Evertec products or services are impacted. The unauthorized activity is related to Business-to-Business financial transactions involving two financial institutions that are customers of Sinqia's Pix transaction processing services. The Company believes that approximately R$710 million in unauthorized transactions affecting those two Sinqia customers were processed through Sinqia's Pix environment on August 29, 2025. The Company has been informed that a portion of that amount has been recovered and additional recovery efforts are ongoing. Preliminary results of the Company's forensics analysis indicate that the unauthorized transactions were introduced into Sinqia's Pix environment by exploiting legitimate Sinqia IT vendors' credentials. Sinqia has terminated access to these credentials. The Company believes the incident is limited to Sinqia's Pix environment and has not identified any unauthorized activity in any other Sinqia systems outside of Pix in Brazil. The Company also has no indication that any personal data has been compromised.