In New York, a Wait-and-See Attitude Even With a Reopening
Businesses will begin to reopen in weeks, but in residential buildings, no one seems quite ready to abandon pandemic protocols.
Last year, the staff at 150 West 58th Street routinely sanitized packages outdoors before delivering them to residents. That precaution may or may not be a thing of the past very soon.Credit.Robert Wright for The New York Times
By Joanne Kaufman
May 6, 2021, 8:00 a.m. ET
On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that come May 19, restaurants, stores, museums, offices, health clubs and barbershops in New York City would be permitted to operate at full capacity for the first time since restrictions were put in place more than a year ago to stem the spread of Covid-19.
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Douglas Elliman Property Management alerted the co-operative and condominium boards for the more than 56,000 units it manages of the breach on April 19. The units are located in 380 properties across all five boroughs, Long Island, Westchester County and Northern New Jersey.
A source close to the matter told
TRD the breach was discovered on April 7, after the company’s IT team noticed suspicious activity on its servers. Douglas Elliman Property Management immediately contacted federal and local law enforcement officials and launched an investigation, which revealed the breach took place between April 5 and April 7 and impacted residents, property owners and employees.
“We take the security of our IT systems as well as the privacy of our clients very seriously and are continuing to enhance our security protocols to help prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future,” a Douglas Elliman spokesperson told
Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber (Getty, iStock, Illustration by Kevin Rebong for The Real Deal)
Thousands of New York residents who live in buildings run by Douglas Elliman’s property management arm may have had their personal information compromised this month.
Douglas Elliman Property Management’s three managing directors emailed hundreds of co-operative and condominium boards Monday to advise them that the company’s IT network which contains data for its buildings’ residents and employees was breached and their personal information may have been compromised.
In the message viewed by
The Real Deal, executives said the firm detected “suspicious activity” on its IT systems April 7. After launching an investigation and contacting law enforcement, Elliman determined that an “unauthorized party” gained access to its IT network between April 5 and April 7 and including files containing owners’ and employees’ personal data. A source with knowledge of th