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choice hotels Data Breach (2019)

choice hotels

mediumVERIS
Disclosed

July 2, 2019

2460 days ago

Records

700.0K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Misconfiguration

Industry

Hospitality

Description

700,000 records belonging to Choice Hotels have reportedly been stolen with hackers demanding payment for their return. Comparitech, in collaboration with security researcher Bob Diachenko, found an unsecured database containing data belonging to the hotel franchise on July 2, 2019, after the database was indexed by the BinaryEdge search engine.