CyberSecurity World

The company reported suspicious activity earlier this year, but the scale of the breach is far bigger than first anticipated. At least 1,025 of its restaurants were targeted - with debit and credit card information stolen. The company did not speculate how many people may have been affected, though it did say all of the locations were in the US. Malware - malicious software - had been installed on point-of-sale systems in the affected locations. The chain said it was confident the threat had been removed, and was now offering help to customers who may have been affected. Help includes the offer of one year of "complimentary" fraud protection services. In a statement outlining the details of the attack, Wendy's said the malware could have been operational in its restaurants from as early as Autumn 2015. Suspicious activity was noticed in February of this year. The company went public with this discovery in May - saying it believed around 300 restaurants