Jennifer Kay reports: A federal appeals court has vacated over $3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded as part of a $12.2 million data breach settlement against Wawa Inc. The fee award issue now is remanded to the district court “to take a closer look at the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees in proportion to class…
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Update: Wawasee Community School Corporation victim of BlackCat attack
The Wawasee Community School Corporation in Indiana was reportedly the victim of a cyberattack by BlackCat. The threat actors have now leaked what they claim are 9.78 GB of files on their leak site because Wawasee did not pay their demands. Perhaps luckily for Wawasee, the download link is not working at this time. There…
IN: Wawasee Hit With Ransomware
David Slone reports: Wawasee Community School Corporation is dealing with a possible ransomware attack that began late last week. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that is designed to block access to a computer system until money is paid. According to a statement released to parents Friday, provided by Superintendent Dr. Steve Troyer to…
Wawa wants a refund, says Mastercard owes $32 million for data breach penalties
Joseph N. DiStefano reports: Wawa, the Delaware County-based convenience store and gas station chain, paid $10.7 million last year linked to a 2019 breach of its customer payment security systems. But now it wants that money back — and more. On Monday in federal court in New York, Wawa sued Mastercard, the giant payment-card network,…
Wawa paying $9-million in cash, gift cards in data breach settlement; Nov. deadline to file claim
WPVI reports an update to the 2019 WaWa breach covered on this site in a number of posts: Wawa is paying out up to $9-million in cash and gift cards related to a data breach that exposed customers’ credit and debit card numbers and names. The breach happened between March 4, 2019 and December 12, 2019….
Wawa Customers Win Initial Settlement Approval in Data Suit
Maeve Allsup reports: More than 22 million Wawa Inc. customers were granted preliminary class status Friday in a suit stemming from a data breach that led to the sale of their payment information on the dark web. [See previous coverage here, here, and here] Hackers accessed Wawa’s point-of-sale systems and installed malware targeting in-store payment…