DisclosureLens
MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)PCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

The Wendy’s Company

bd_dbe1cac7b05f025f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2016

Filed

Jul 7, 2016

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

The Wendy’s Company 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. The company first reported unusual activity in February 2016. The breach resulted from compromised remote access credentials of a service provider, which allowed attackers to deploy malware on point-of-sale systems. Affected data included cardholder name, credit/debit card number, expiration date, cardholder verification value, and service code. Wendy’s disabled the malware and offered one year of complimentary fraud consultation and identity restoration services to affected customers.

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

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.