Hackers have stolen 700,000 guest records belonging to Choice Hotels, one of the largest hotel chains in the world. Experts discovered unsecured MongoDB archive containing 5.6 million records on July 2, 2019, after the archive was indexed by the BinaryEdge search engine. The company revealed that the database was hosted on a vendors server. However, crooks have already got access to the data and attempted to blackmail the business. They left a ransom note demanding $3,856 as of time of writing.”]
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