Hackers have intercepted the £2.4 million that had gone into the payment landscape by John constable
ARTinvestment.RU   15 апреля 2020

Now the fate of the painting in court to decide who buys her Museum Twente and sold work dealer Simon Dickinson

When it comes to crimes in the sphere of art and, in the narrower sense of painting, come to mind robbers, cut the canvases from their frames or the creators of counterfeits, selling their work under the guise of masterpieces, but not computer technology. However, the new time brings new types of art-преступлений. No wonder the experts at cyber-безопасности today warned art-рынок about the increasing cases of fraud associated with cash transfers online.

One of the largest such cases is now the subject of court proceedings between the Netherlands Twente Museum (Rijksmuseum Twenthe) and the London art dealer Simon Dickinson. In 2018, at the fair TEFAF Maastricht Museum and the dealer came to the agreement on the purchase of a landscape by John constable "View of Hampstead-Хит: Childs-Хилл, harrow in the distance". The amount of the transaction amounted to £2.4 million Museum took the job itself (for further examination and confirmation of assessment of work), and documentary evidence of the transaction was to be issued later. All further operations — registration of the contract of sale, invoices and other documents, as often happens, the Museum and gallery conducted via email, the hack which allowed cyber-преступникам to interfere in the deal. According to information published The Telegraph, hackers managed to penetrate the correspondence between the Museum and the seller of the picture and substitute the details in the invoice of the landscape. According to one version, they sent the invoice for the painting from the name and address of the seller. In the end the Museum, he not understanding, sent £2.4 million not gallery in London, and the Bank account Scam in Hong Kong.

Now the buyer and the seller in court to decide the issue of ownership of the painting and of the responsibility to protect data sent in e-mail messages. Both the buyer and the seller believe that a security breach allowed the opposing party. In words the Director of the Museum Arno Adding, "the investigation revealed that our mail system was no vulnerable spots that they were modern and fine. We affirm in court that the painting was bought and paid for". However, according to a representative of Dickinson, his client did not know about the email with the Bank account that received the Museum, and a Museum were added to verify the correct details before sending what-либо money.

Despite the fact that at the end of January 2020, the court ruled in favor of the London art-дилера, the trial is still ongoing.

Sources: nltimes.nl, the telegraph.co.uk



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