No patron information was compromised in a recent ransomware attack against John R. Wood Christie’s International Real Estate by a cyber gang known as Medusa, according to the company.
Medusa announced the attack on its site, claiming it had stolen more than 1 terabyte of Wood data. The gang demanded $2 million from the real estate group in exchange for deleting the stolen data or else it planned to sell the information on the dark web.
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Source: MSN News
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