Excel Services Web App Refresh failure

I started having an issue where manual refreshes of my Excel Workbooks are failing after installing SP1 in my Office Web Apps 2013 farm. The workbooks are configured to use a target application ID from the secure store service and they refresh fine
when opened in the Excel client application, just not in the browser. The error is "An error occurred while accessing application ID XXXX from the secure store service.
Nothing seems to show up in the ULS logs either when this happens.
Any ideas?

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