{"id":14675,"date":"2024-06-01T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/christies-website-hack-shows-how-art-world-has-become-target-for-cybercrime\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:38:01","slug":"christies-website-hack-shows-how-art-world-has-become-target-for-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/christies-website-hack-shows-how-art-world-has-become-target-for-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s website hack shows how art world has become target for cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auction house hit by cyber-extortionist group RansomHub which claims to have sensitive information of at least 500,000 clients<\/p>\n<p>A ransomware hack was the last thing the precarious fine art market needed \u2013 but that\u2019s what it got when Christie\u2019s website went down days before it began its all-important 20th and 21st century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-05-08\/even-big-new-york-art-auctions-are-expecting-muted-sales-in-may-2024\">May auctions in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of the French-owned auctioneer, gently called the attack a \u201ctechnology security incident\u201d. Christie\u2019s posted its auction catalogs on a separate site, the sale went ahead with sales of $640m, and 10 days later the website came back to life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/01\/christies-website-hack-ransomware-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7707f838098ca0040ddedadb9076b5e9556470c\/0_0_5022_3012\/master\/5022.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5818f395cde4e13ec7a68655109f3ae1\" title=\"Christie\u2019s website hack shows how art world has become target for cybercrime\" \/>Auction house hit by cyber-extortionist group RansomHub which claims to have sensitive information of at least 500,000 clients<br \/>\nA ransomware hack was the last thing the precarious fine art market needed \u2013 but that\u2019s what it got when Christie\u2019s website went down days before it began its all-important 20th and 21st century May auctions in New York.<br \/>\nGuillaume Cerutti, CEO of the French-owned auctioneer, gently called the attack a \u201ctechnology security incident\u201d. Christie\u2019s posted its auction catalogs on a separate site, the sale went ahead with sales of $640m, and 10 days later the website came back to life. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auction house hit by cyber-extortionist group RansomHub which claims to have sensitive information of at least 500,000 clients A ransomware hack was the last thing the precarious fine art market needed \u2013 but that\u2019s what it got when Christie\u2019s website went down days before it began its all-important 20th and 21st century May auctions in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/christies-website-hack-shows-how-art-world-has-become-target-for-cybercrime\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christie\u2019s website hack shows how art world has become target for cybercrime<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}