{"id":655381,"date":"2026-10-24T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655381\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:56:08","slug":"knicks-msg-respond-to-championship-ring-drama-phishing-test-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/655381\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks, MSG Respond to Championship Ring Drama, Phishing Test Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1437321\/knicks-vs-76ers-opener-harry-styles-jon-bon-jovi-more-celebs-at-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Knicks<\/a> organization is on defense after a corporate airball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Months after the New York team&#8217;s NBA title win against the San Antonio Spurs June 13, the team&#8217;s owner MSG Sports confirmed employees who support the team at Madison Square Garden received a phishing test that falsely offered staff a fitting for a championship ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company had previously sent out an email to its corporate team as a simulation of a phishing attack designed to strengthen our security against hackers,&#8221; an MSG Sports spokesman told E! News Oct. 23. &#8220;MSG was recently hacked and extorted using an employee login and password obtained through a similar phishing attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the company\u2014which also operates the Garden\u2014acknowledged that implementing the security exercise was a misstep.<\/p>\n<p>As the statement said, &#8220;Using the rings as a lure to gain employees attention was an unfortunate mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as the Knicks aim to bounce back with their corporate teammates, they&#8217;re also on the rebound from a foul with assistant coaching staff. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7718064\/2026\/10\/23\/knicks-championship-ring-phishing-test-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Athletic<\/a>, key leadership who helped players like Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns clinch game five were given empty boxes with no commemorative jewelry inside at an Oct. 20 ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks organization is on defense after a corporate airball.\u00a0 Months after the New York team&#8217;s NBA title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-655381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}