Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-08-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Choice Hotels
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers claim to have stolen 700,000 guest records belonging to Choice Hotels, one of the largest hotel chains in the world. The data was left exposed in an unsecured MongoDB.