Wendy's data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the March 2018 breach of Wendy's. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Wendy's data breach exposed 52,485 accounts from wendys.com.ph in March 2018. The data taken includes passwords, names, physical addresses and email addresses and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 24 May 2022, 4 years later. It is the 597th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Wendy's’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Education levels | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Job applications | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Wendy's among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Wendy's password.If the account still exists, sign in at Wendy's (wendys.com.ph) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Wendy's.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 4 years later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- Fashion Nexus, July 2018, 1.3 million accounts
- CafePress, February 2019, 23 million accounts
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
- 123RF, March 2020, 8.7 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- wendys.com.ph, Wendy's’s website