- Title: Grocery store chain Wawa notifies customers of data security incident
- Date: 20th December 2019
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 20, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CYBERSCOUT, CHAIRMAN, ADAM LEVIN, SAYING: "It's a big deal, but it can be solved fairly quickly, provided the consumers act quickly, which means you contact your financial institution. You either cancel your card or sign up for alerts that notify you anytime there's activity in your credit account or your bank account. You consider freezing your credit. They're offering monitoring resolution services now for people who could be victims of this, since it impacted customers of 850 stores across the country. You could be talking about hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, but retailers, food operation, everyone has to be on alert because hackers are looking for whatever low-hanging fruit they can get, and being able to get their way into a payment processing system of a retailer is like hitting the mother lode. They get the information. They move quickly. They may sell the information on the dark web. They may use it for their own purposes."
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- Keywords: Adam Levin Wawa all Wawa locations cardholder names customer payment card information data breach data security incident debit and credit card numbers expiration dates
- Location: WAWA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, UNKNOWN LOCATIONS
- City: WAWA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, UNKNOWN LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events
- Reuters ID: LVA008BAS7CST
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- Story Text: Grocery store chain, Wawa, said on Friday (December 20) its information security team discovered malware on its payment processing servers on December 10, 2019.
The virus stole Wawa's customers payment card information, including debit and credit card numbers, expiration dates and cardholder names, but did not access PIN numbers or CVV2 numbers.
Wawa said its cyber security team contained the malware by December 12, 2019.
It also said that it began running at different points in time after March 4, 2019.
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