Choice Hotels has launched an investigation and will evaluate its vendor relationships after the personal data of 2.4 million customers, including names, phone numbers and email addresses, was stolen by hackers. The information was exposed for four days on an unsecured MongoDB database. Initially discovered on four days by BinaryEdge , it was only when security researcher Bob Diachenko sent a third notification to Choice Hotels that the database was secured on four days . Most of the 700,000 compromised records were in a database of 2.4 million records labeled "privacy log" and located in the same MongoDB instance. Diachenko said the hackers had left an automated ransom of BTC0.4 ($ 3,936 ).
Choice Hotels has launched an investigation and will evaluate its vendor relationships after the personal data of 2.4 million customers, including names, phone numbers and email addresses, was stolen by hackers. The information was exposed for four days on an unsecured MongoDB database. Initially discovered on four days by BinaryEdge , it was only when security researcher Bob Diachenko sent a third notification to Choice Hotels that the database was secured on four days . Diachenko said the hackers had left an automated ransom of BTC0.4 ($ 3,936 ).