‘Devastating’: Experts React as Suspected Cyberattack Keeps Christie’s Website Offline During Marquee Auction Week

Christie's New York, 2012. Photo: Ben Hider/Getty Images.

Journalist Brian Boucher spoke with Megan Fox Kelly about her thoughts on Christie’s website hack and what that might mean for collectors.

“You can look at my website and find out information about my company and me and what we do, but that’s not where my company lives,” said art advisor Megan Fox Kelly, commenting on the difference between the two kinds of hacks. “I really can’t imagine that valuable data is exposed. It’s too sophisticated a company. And yet, it’s no less devastating that the promotional website goes down the week before the spring sales. Now they have to pivot to find out how to effectively stage these sales.”

Read the full article at artnet here.