Choice Hotels says 700,000 guest records were exposed after one of its vendors copied data from its systems. Fraudsters discovered the unsecured database and tried to hold the hotel chain to ransom, which it ignored. The data was copied by the vendor, which was not identified, to its systems without authorization, the hotel company says. None of the companys servers were impacted, and the data did not contain payment, password or reservation information, a spokeswoman says.”]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/choice-hotels-700000-guest-records-exposed-a-12913