← Wawa

2020 Wawa — 30M payment cards

2020 30.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Payment card numbers, expiration dates

Technical writeup

Wawa, the convenience store chain, suffered a breach affecting all 850+ locations. Malware was installed on payment processing systems, compromising approximately 30 million debit and credit card numbers. Data was sold on the dark web.

Root cause

POS malware; hacking

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