AccidentalTechnologyInformationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 12, 2019

Filed

Dec 3, 2019

To disclose

21 days

Affected · nationwide

88,0002,006 in this filing

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE →3 incidents on file

Choice Hotels International disclosed an inadvertent data exposure affecting approximately 88,000 individuals between June 2015 and November 2019. A technical misconfiguration involving Safari browser crashes caused reservation data (names, emails, payment card details) to be exposed to third-party tracking vendors via URL parameters. Choice Hotels patched the code and requested data deletion from third parties.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due21 days discovery → filing

⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1625 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Jun 1, 2015

Begins

Nov 12, 2019

Discovered

Dec 3, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

16 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_704663f4ed3706e62019-12-02 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_7a0f208daa634ba82019-11-29 · +4dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_a56e87e2a63c96dc2019-11-29 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_bdb37959843ab45e2019-11-29 · +4dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_d69bfb5a1239ad622019-11-29 · +4dVerified
Washington State AGbd_ff0c6471398ec38b2019-11-29 · +4dVerified

Name: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE
norm: choice hotels international inc de
Domain: choicehotels.com

Name: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE
norm: choice hotels international inc de
Domain: choicehotels.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Nov 12, 2019
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2015 – Nov 12, 2019
Undetected for: 1,625 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 12, 2019
Affected individuals: 88,000state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object

During the incident: Made changes to the code that operates our website to override how Safari responds after a crash
Contacting the third-party companies we work with to ask them to delete any data they may have
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Oregon State AGNov 29 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 29 · first

California State AGNov 29 · first

Montana State AGNov 29 · first

Washington State AGNov 29 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d

South Carolina State AG+4d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2019/ChoiceHotels.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 3, 2019
Raw hash: c64c54122dfe3cd38ec9523f85d6bd1e1601f92db93fe8479075012908eef720

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE

Victim entityCHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE

Incidentdiscovered Nov 12, 2019

Stated responseMade changes to the code that operates our website to override how Safari responds after a crash

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov