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, it says. The hotel chain says the data was being hosted on their server to test a security offering. The database was apparently discovered by others, because a ransom note was found by a researcher.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/choice-hotels-700000-guest-records-exposed-a-12913