ArtForum reports:
Several US arts institutions were rendered unable to display their collections online after a cyberattack struck a tech service provider used by the museums, the New York Times reports. Among those affected by the breach targeting Gallery Systems, which aids cultural institutions in managing internal documents and displaying works digitally, were the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the Rubin Museum of Art in New York; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Arlington, New York; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Gallery Systems is said to have first become aware of the problem on December 28, when computers running its software became encrypted and no longer operable.
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The gallery systems attack was first reported by Bleeping Computer.