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CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 14, 2026

Filed

Feb 19, 2026

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE3 incidents on file

Choice Hotels International, Inc. reported a data breach on January 14, 2026, where an external actor used social engineering to bypass multifactor authentication and access an application containing franchisee and applicant records. The incident involved names and Social Security numbers. Access was shut down within an hour. The company notified law enforcement and is offering two years of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Jan 14, 2026

Begins

Jan 14, 2026

Discovered

Feb 19, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 18d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Feb 1 (IL), last Feb 20 (TX) — a 19-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.