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Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates

Posted by Soulskill on from the change-your-password dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The St. Louis Cardinals have been one of the better baseball teams over the past several years. The Houston Astros have been one of the worst. Nevertheless, there is evidence that officials for the Cardinals broke into a network maintained by the Astros in order to gain access to "internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics, and scouting reports." The FBI is now leading an investigation into the breach, and they have served subpoenas to the Cardinals and to Major League Baseball demanding access to electronic correspondence. It's the first known instance of corporate espionage involving a network breach in professional sports. Law enforcement said the intrusion "did not appear to be sophisticated." It seems likely that a personal vendetta against the Astros's general manager is involved.

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  1. Re:Learned from the Patriots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or, you know, literally anyone who doesn't live in Boston.

    Everyone knows the Patriots should have had the Lombardi trophy taken from them. Including Tom Brady and the Patriots themselves.

    The fact that they didn't can only be ascribed to the fact that the NFL commissioner is good friends with the Patriots owner.