Christie's website hit by major cyberattack hours before huge auction

Date:
Tue, 14 May 2024 12:54:17 +0000

Description:
Auction house forced to set up alternative solutions as its main website remains offline.

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Iconic auction house Christies was forced to set up an entirely new website for live auctions after its main domain was brought down by a highly disruptive cyberattack.

The companys website shut down on Thursday night, a few days before it was planning on auctioning roughly $840 million worth of art. At press time, the website was still offline, with a temporary site being propped up in its place.

On this new site, Christies left this message for its visitors: We apologize that our full website is currently offline. We are looking to resolve this as soon as possible and regret any inconvenience. Proceeding as planned

While the outage might be the result of a cyberattack in which hackers may have even stolen data, its worth mentioning that this might also have been a Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attack. Until Christies comes forward with more details, however, we can only speculate on the cause.

As the companys IT team wrestles with the incident, a new site was set up to help facilitate upcoming auctions:

Looking ahead, we are pleased to confirm all our live auctions this week will take place as scheduled, with the exception of the Rare Watches sale in
Geneva that we postponed by one day to tomorrow, 14th May, the company said
in an updated statement.

Ourmarketingteams have designed andbuilt anew website environment tohost content for our live auctions including sales information, catalogs and essays. Our Christie'sYouTubechannel is also available with virtually all ourvideocontentfor this weeks Luxury and20/21 sales, as well as our other social media channels. While our usual website remains offline, our clients will be able to bid securely in person, on the phone, by absentee bid and online via Christies LIVE.

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