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title: "Wendy's Settles Data Breach Claims for $50 Million"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/59cecfea-2557-46dc-9828-45b112aae7e5
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/wendys-settles-data-breach-claims-for-50-million-2709159
category: "Burger"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Burger"
published: 2019-02-14T15:10:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:39:57.778Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/580b6b15d1030ffbacaa7caf01b8802a935.jpg
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# Wendy's Settles Data Breach Claims for $50 Million

**TL;DR:** Wendy's has reached agreements to resolve legal issues from a 2015-2016 data breach, agreeing to pay $50 million to settle claims. The company will be responsible for $27.5 million of the settlement after exhausting insurance.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-02-14. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/wendys-settles-data-breach-claims-for-50-million-2709159).*

## Story

The Wendy’s Co . has now reached agreements to resolve all of the legal issues that arose following a massive data breach that hit over 1,000 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016.

According to a recent Restaurant Business article , Wendy’s has agreed to pay a group of financial institutions $50 million to settle claims of negligence on the company’s part in the cyberattack that exposed the credit card information of customers through malware installed on its point-of-sale system. Last year, Wendy’s settled a class-action lawsuit brought by customers affected by the data breach.

Restaurant Business noted that after it exhausts insurance, Wendy’s itself would be on the hook for $27.5 million of the settlement.

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## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Wendy's (company)
- Restaurant Business (publication)
- data breach (topic)
- settlement (topic)
- cyberattack (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/wendys-settles-data-breach-claims-for-50-million-2709159). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/59cecfea-2557-46dc-9828-45b112aae7e5).