700K Guest Records Stolen in Choice Hotels Breach

Cybercriminals reportedly stole the information from an exposed MongoDB database on a third-party server. Hotel franchisor Choice Hotels has confirmed a breach in which attackers stole 700,000 guest records from a publicly available MongoDB database without a password or any authentication. The unsecured server, which the hotel chain says belonged to a third-party vendor, contained
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Majority of Hotel Websites Leak Guest Booking Info

Third parties such as ad, search engine, and analytics firms often have access to guest name, address, phone numbers, credit cards and other data, Symantec says. Information that people submit when making an online hotel reservation is often available in its entirety to a lot more parties than just the hotel itself. New research from
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