Choice Hotels franchises 7,000 properties in 41 countries, under brands like Comfort Inn, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge and Clarion. A MongoDB database containing 700,000 customer records was left open to the internet this week. Attackers demanded 0.4 Bitcoin, or around $3,800, as a ransom, but they didn’t lock up the data. Situation highlights supply-chain data-security risk, given that the data was being held by a third-party vendor.
Source: https://threatpost.com/choice-hotels-breach-shared-responsibility-model/147383/