CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE — January 2026 breach
Clustered 10 filings across 10 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 19, 2026 → Feb 20, 2026 (dated filings only). View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_cfbc4377ea484341 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
Sensitive data
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident. Filings without a recorded filing day, or recorded as filed before the breach they report began, are not placed on this rail.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- FEB 1IL AGIL AG noticefiling day not on record · no count statedauto-linked—
- FEB 19IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 24,115operator-confirmedday 0
- FEB 19NH AGNH AG notice67 NH residentsauto-linkedday 0
- FEB 19NE AGNE AG noticefiling day not on record · 198 NE residentsauto-linked—
- FEB 19CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
- FEB 19MA AGMA AG notice269 MA residentsauto-linkedday 0
- FEB 19OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 24,115operator-confirmedday 0
- FEB 19VT AGVT AG noticeno count statedauto-linkedday 0
- FEB 19ME AGME AG notice66 ME residentsoperator-confirmedday 0
- FEB 20TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 24,115operator-confirmed+1d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Jan 14, 2026 IN AG
- Discovered
- Jan 14, 2026NE AG + CA AG + OR AG +1Jan 26, 2026IL AG + ME AG + TX AGfilings disagree on discovery
- Data types
- Identity (basic) · Government ID IL AG + NH AG + NE AG +5
- Attack vector
- Phishing NE AG
Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.
Count reconciliation
per-state reported counts
Nationwide (stated in a filing)
24,115
Sum of filed state slices
3,670· 15.2% of stated
85% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.
Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies
No leak-site claim on record for this incident.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
No SEC filing or victim statement yet.
Merge provenance
- Method
- deterministic
- Confidence
- 1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
- Reviewed
- operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
- Audit
- Every link edge records its method, confidence and model + prompt versions (100% is the strongest edge).
Merges are reversible — a wrong link can be detached with its audit trail intact. How merging works.
Filing velocity
Spread
1 days
Cadence
~1 / 0.1d
vs. multi-state median
6.0× faster
About this clustering
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