“Right after Riley wrote the letter, I started to reach out to Under Armour,” Curry told ESPN. “One, to see how we could fix the problem that she was having with her experience on the website and trying to find her size in the right section. Two, having the quick idea of saying, ‘Let’s take this another level and let Riley use her story to impact women using their voice, all across the world in whatever way they can.’”

From there, the International Women’s Day special edition of his sneaker was born.

After Morrison co-designed last year’s version, Curry partnered with 16-year-old actress Storm Reid on the theme for this year’s Curry 7. The shoe features multiple tones of purple, the official color of International Women's Day, which is Sunday.

“It’s important to uplift young women and give them a dream, confidence and a vision, showing them what they’re capable of,” Curry said. “Storm embodies that entirely with how she represents herself.”

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For Reid, who jokes that it’s still a funny experience seeing herself on screen, seeing her #Bamazing platform come to life atop her favorite player's signature sneaker has been a unique experience.

“I’ve been holding this secret since like August of last year!” she said, with a beaming smile. “I think people will be inspired by it. Of course, they love him, and they love his shoes. To have another shoe drop is cool, but to have it be more impactful is super exciting.”

- How Stephen Curry’s International Women’s Day sneaker came to life, ESPN.com, March 7, 2020.

3. December’s revelation that U.S. government agencies and our largest corporations were subject to a hyper-sophisticated cyberattack was not unexpected, but the breadth of the SolarWinds hack was shocking.

FireEye, a world leader on cybersecurity, stated the company had never witnessed a breach of this scope and magnitude. In a blog post disclosing the attack, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia wrote, “We are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities.” It was evident just how serious the situation was.

Then the other shoe dropped. Days after the initial report disclosing the breach, we learned that the SolarWinds hack impacted thousands more entities than previously believed and is still ongoing as we speak.

Through a series of seemingly innocuous software updates, hostile actors penetrated our networks and spread undetected for months like a metastatic cancer.

We don’t yet know the full extent of what assets were compromised in SolarWinds, something that will take months or longer to assess. What is clear is very few nation-states have the cyber capabilities needed to orchestrate a hack of this sophistication, and SolarWinds bears all the hallmarks of Russian malign activity.

Malware and cyberattacks are something of a Russian specialty and remain their tools of choice because they are cheap to execute and can wreak maximum havoc.

- Op-ed: The SolarWinds hack is a blow. The U.S. must prioritize cybersecurity now, CNBC.com, February 9, 2021.

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