{"id":54225,"date":"2016-09-06T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54225"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:40:36","slug":"the-new-short-find-industries-exposed-to-exotic-hacking-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/the-new-short-find-industries-exposed-to-exotic-hacking-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Short: Find Industries Exposed to Exotic Hacking Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A new way to bet against stocks is born. A few hours after Carson Block announced last Thursday that he was shorting St. Jude Medical Inc. stock over hacking risks to the company\u2019s pacemakers and defibrillators, the e-mails started stacking up in Billy Rios\u2019 and Jonathan Butts\u2019 inboxes.<\/p>\n<p>The two are top medical-device cybersecurity consultants, and they were inundated with inquiries from hedge funds, short sellers and other investors trying to make sense of the news &#8212; or profit themselves from the trade by Block\u2019s firm, Muddy Waters Capital LLC. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-06\/the-new-short-find-industries-exposed-to-exotic-hacking-attacks\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A new way to bet against stocks is born. A few hours after Carson Block announced last Thursday that he was shorting St. Jude Medical Inc. stock over hacking risks to the company\u2019s pacemakers and defibrillators, the e-mails started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54226,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54225\/revisions\/54226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}