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MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

THE WENDY'S COMPANY

bd_d08b42b228651f10 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2016

Filed

Jul 7, 2016

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for THE WENDY'S COMPANY5 incidents on file

Wendy's of Fresno, Inc. reported a data breach affecting payment card information at some franchisee-operated restaurants in the U.S. The incident occurred between December 2, 2015, and June 8, 2016, with unusual activity first reported in February 2016. Malware was deployed on point-of-sale systems after a service provider's remote access credentials were compromised. Affected data included cardholder name, card number, expiration date, CVV, and service code. Wendy's disabled the malware and offered one year of fraud consultation and identity restoration services.

Incident timeline

undetected · 61 days
discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 157 days

Dec 2, 2015

Begins

Feb 1, 2016

Discovered

Jul 7, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

+15 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AG+2d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.