Wendy’s Confirms More Unusual Credit Card Activity At Its Restaurants

U.S. burger chain operator Wendy’s Co. said it had discovered additional instances of unusual credit card activity at some of its franchise-operated restaurants, widening the scope of an earlier cyberattack on the company.

The company in January said it was investigating reports of unusual activity with payment cards used at some of its restaurants.

Wendy’s said it recently discovered a variant of a malware that was discovered and reported in May. The new malware was used to target a point-of-sales system that was earlier believed to be unaffected.