Hacking group claims it stole client data from Christie’s

The attack, which led to the auction house taking down its site on May 9, came days before Christie’s began its all-important 20th and 21st century May auctions in New York. This briefly threw the success of the auctions in doubt. — Unsplash

After a cyberattack on Christie’s auction house earlier this month, a hacker group called RansomHub claimed responsibility.

In a post on the dark web Monday, RansomHub said that it had gained access to the personal information of the firm’s wealthy clients and published what it claimed was a “sample” with a few names, nationalities and birth dates. The group posted the information along with a countdown clock, suggesting they would publish the entire trove in early June.