Wendy's

South Carolina AG notice for Wendy's regarding a 2016 breach affecting approximately 1,000 state residents. The source document is a placeholder PDF with no narrative content, resulting in low-confidence extraction of all fields.

Affected (this filing): 1,000

Wendy's of Fresno, Inc. reported a cybersecurity incident involving malicious cyber activity targeting payment card information at franchisee-operated restaurants. The breach resulted from compromised service provider remote access credentials, allowing deployment of malware on POS systems. Affected data included cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates, and verification values. Wendy's disabled the malware, engaged forensic experts and law enforcement, and offered one year of fraud consultation and identity restoration services to affected customers.