Midnight in the Garden

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New York Knicks owner James Dolan celebrates winning the 2026 NBA Finals with the team. Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
June 22, 2026

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Last week, just as the New York Knicks were celebrating their first championship in 53 years, a notorious hacking group known as ShinyHunters dumped a cache of compromised data from Madison Square Garden after owner Jim Dolan refused to pay an undisclosed ransom. The leak reportedly contained some 42 gigabytes of records relating to visitors, contractors, and employees. And yet, outside the legal community and a few cybersecurity obsessives, hardly anyone seemed terribly agitated. Perhaps the answer to New York magazine’s existential coverline last week—“What If It All Came Out?,” a nod to the ambient dread of living with one’s secrets in the cloud—is simply this: Did the Knicks just win a title? Then who freakin’ cares.