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Don’t let a ransomware attack bankrupt your company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson has spoken publicly for the first time since Grand Slam Track went bankrupt, and has clarified details of payments to himself and competing athletes.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Among other factors, the report highlighted that 500,000 Russians went bankrupt last year, that as many as 15% of bank loans were nonperforming — and that that number is likely to increase.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

“So the taxpayers of the United States subsidized the creation of this new property to help bankrupt another federally subsidized property,” he said.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The company’s CEO, Bill Aldinger, had grown Household even as his competitors went bankrupt.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it,” the attorney general said in an interview when the case was filed.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

The fight almost bankrupts the rural town of Shelby, Mont., which borrows heavily to stage it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2020

“Not doing so bankrupts the principles, leaving them worthless for all,” Mr. Orr said in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2015

The customer who plays zero-sum games against them may win from time to time but never systematically, and never so spectacularly that he bankrupts the casino.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

While her husband and his ministers bankrupted France, she played at the simple life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

The Finlays implemented the cow-with-calf system with their herd, but the decision almost bankrupted the business when they did not have enough milk left to sell to market.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

He takes credit for devising the strategy behind Thiel’s litigation that ultimately bankrupted Gawker Media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

Medical care for those serious conditions is expensive, and could have bankrupted someone with inadequate insurance.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

It was how she spent her time, buying up as many folks as she could, and rumor was she damn near bankrupted her and the major doing it.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

The center filed lawsuits aimed at bankrupting Klan organizations, unsympathetic defendants that made easy targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Perhaps most evil are the acquisitions of hospitals for the sole purpose of bankrupting them and selling off assets to line someone else’s pockets.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

“I’m getting calls from the East Coast asking me if people should invest in bankrupting L.A. County,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

If successful, Energy Transfer’s $300 million lawsuit may end up bankrupting the advocacy group as a whole, both domestically and internationally.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025

He thought nothing of bankrupting his own people to buy Rome’s protection.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby