COLUMBUS – The data breach at some Wendy’s restaurants might be a whopper.
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That’s what Dan Berger, president of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, told Brian Krebs, the author of the widely followed blog Krebs on Security.
“This is what we’ve heard from three different credit union CEOs in Ohio now: It’s more concentrated and the amounts hitting compromised debit accounts is much higher that what they were hit with after Home Depot or Target,” Berger said this week.
“It seems to have been been (the work of) a sophisticated group, in terms of the timing and the accounts they targeted. They were targeting and draining debit accounts with lots of money in them.”
Berger did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. Wendy’s also declined to comment on the data breach other than to say its investigation was ongoing and some malware was found at some locations.
Wendy’s has not identified the locations where the breaches occurred, when it occurred, how many were involved and the dollar amounts of the transactions. Wendy’s, which is based in Dublin, has more than 6,000 stores worldwide, the vast majority of those in North America and owned by franchisees.