In December of 2019, Wawa admitted to a security breach that affected 30 million consumers. The credit card and debit card transactions in their stores, as well as, their gas pumps had been stolen for many months. Wawa is a privately owned company which makes it difficult to determine their sales and security. It is known that Wawa is the largest convenience store chain in the greater Philadelphia area with sales over $10 billion dollars. 645 Wawa locations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Florida.
Wawa headquarters are located in Wawa, Pennsylvania. Wawa is an indigenous American word for “flying goose”; however, Wawa customer may feel they got a giant goose egg.
Krebs On Security reports, Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards. “On the evening of Monday, Jan. 27, a popular fraud bazaar known as Joker’s Stash began selling card data from “a new huge nationwide breach” that purportedly includes more than 30 million card accounts issued by thousands of financial institutions across 40+ U.S. states.
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Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards
In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.
On the evening of Monday, Jan. 27, a popular fraud bazaar known as Joker’s Stash began selling card data from “a new huge nationwide breach” that purportedly includes more than 30 million card accounts issued by thousands of financial institutions across 40+ U.S. states.
The fraud bazaar Joker’s Stash on Monday began selling some 30 million stolen payment card accounts that experts say have been tied back to a breach at Wawa in 2019.
Two sources that work closely with financial institutions nationwide tell KrebsOnSecurity the new batch of cards that went on sale Monday evening — dubbed “BIGBADABOOM-III” by Joker’s Stash — map squarely back to cardholder purchases at Wawa.”