Choice Hotels International, Inc.

The Washington State Office of the Attorney General reported on November 29, 2019, that Choice Hotels International, Inc. experienced a technical issue that inadvertently exposed personal information of approximately 1,684 Washington residents. The breach involved data entered by users on Choice's website becoming accessible due to a browser crash in Safari from June 2015 to November 12, 2019, potentially affecting guest names, email addresses, and payment card details.

Source: https://www.atg.wa.gov/data-breach-notifications | https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=10523

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/choice-hotels-international

"id": "cho647072925",
"linkid": "choice-hotels-international",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "6/2015",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1684,
                        'industry': 'Hospitality',
                        'name': 'Choice Hotels International, Inc.',
                        'type': 'Corporation'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Browser Crash in Safari',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1684,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['guest names',
                                                         'email addresses'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['guest names',
                                              'email addresses',
                                              'payment card details']},
 'date_detected': '2019-11-12',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2019-11-29',
 'description': 'A technical issue inadvertently exposed personal information '
                'of approximately 1,684 Washington residents due to a browser '
                'crash in Safari from June 2015 to November 12, 2019.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['guest names',
                                 'email addresses',
                                 'payment card details']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2019-11-29',
                 'source': 'Washington State Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'Choice Hotels Data Exposure Incident',
 'type': 'Data Exposure'}