Hackers claim to have stolen 700,000 guest records belonging to Choice Hotels, one of the largest hotel chains in the world. The unsecured database was left exposed and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The company says the majority of the records were test data, not associated with real peoples names, email addresses, and phone numbers. The database held 5.6 million records, but it appears malicious actors got to it first and left a ransom note demanding $3,856.”]
Source: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/choice-hotels-data-leak/