Choice Hotels has launched an investigation and will evaluate its vendor relationships after the personal data of its staff , including names , phone numbers and email addresses , was stolen by hackers . The information was exposed for four days on an unsecured MongoDB server . Initially discovered on 30 June by BinaryEdge , it was only when security researcher Bob Diachenko sent a second notification to Choice Hotels that the database was recovered on 2 July . Diachenko said the hackers had left an automated ransom of BTC0.4 ( $ 1 ) .
Choice Hotels has launched an investigation and will evaluate its vendor relationships after the personal data of 700,000 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 30 June by BinaryEdge, it was only when security researcher Bob Diachenko sent a second notification to Choice Hotels that the database was secured on 2 July. Diachenko said the hackers had left an automated ransom of BTC0.4 ($3,936).