Choice Hotels International

myself & 3 friends stayed at econo lodge in newton iowa . 3 of us used our credit cards to pay for the rooms . after being home for just over a week we had all 3 been contacted separately by our credit card fraud division . all of us have different card companies . we were told our cards had be compromised & someone tried to use them at a store in new york to make over $500 purchases . the only place we used our cards was at econo lodge, so that is where our card numbers were stolen from . i don't know if the owners of the hotel were responsible or if they were hacked but that is definately where it originated .