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Wawa officials have recently announced that they are in the process of getting the penalties back that they paid to Mastercard in the year 2019. The penalties were paid by Wawa to Mastercard after a breach was established with the payment security systems at Wawa. Wawa is a major gas station and convenience store chain that is headquartered in Pennsylvania.
It was back in December of 2019 when Chris Gheysens, the CEO at Wawa revealed that they had discovered malware in their payment system. The particular malware was responsible for stealing the credit card information of the customers who visited Wawa.
Chris confirmed that they had discovered the malware to be operating at their 842 locations. These affected stores were spread across the United States. The majority of the Wawa stores impacted by the malware were in Florida, DC, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Ido Fishman, who is a market observer as well as an expert in information security, revealed that the malware had been operating at the stores since March 2021.
Due to the security incident, Wawa ended up paying $10.7 million to Mastercard, their primary payment card network, in the form of penalties.
However, the legal teams at Wawa have now claimed that the entire process of Mastercard collecting $10.7 million from Wawa in the form of penalties was completely unlawful. Therefore, the legal teams at Wawa have filed a lawsuit against Mastercard.
In the lawsuit, Wawa legal teams have made the same claims of Mastercard making an unlawful move against their company. The lawsuit has been filed by Wawa at the New York federal court.
It has been confirmed that the penalties against Wawa were imposed by the Bank of America. In the penalties, the credit card bank alleged that the customer-related disputes at Wawa were not being filed and tackled as per Mastercard’s standards.
In the lawsuit, Wawa has claimed that it had to face many damages due to the case and it has now demanded $34 million from Mastercard.
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