By attorneys at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC ( January 12, 2017, 12:52 PM EST) -- On Aug. 25th 2016, the investment firm Muddy Waters Research announced it had taken a short position in St. Jude Medical Inc., and released a report suggesting a "strong possibility that close to half of" St. Jude revenues were about to disappear for a period of roughly two years because St. Jude's implantable cardiac devices were allegedly vulnerable to cyber-attacks.[1] The report further stated that the cyber-attacks included crash attacks that cause devices to malfunction — including by apparently pacing at a potentially dangerous rate and a battery drain attack that could be particularly harmful to device-dependent users.[2]...