In the quiet corridors of luxury real estate, where trust is as valuable as the properties exchanged, Sotheby's International now confronts the modern vulnerability that no prestige can fully shield against: the exposure of client contact data through a third-party marketing platform. The breach, discovered and swiftly contained, did not reach financial records or property documents, yet it reminds us that even carefully bounded data carries human weight — names, addresses, the coordinates of a life. As forensic investigators work to map what was truly taken, the incident stands as a broader m