Houston Astros hacked by St. Louis Cardinals? FBI & DOJ investigate ...

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Russia and China are mentioned, too. Boogity-boogity, sports fans! (No word yet on whether Edward Snowden is involved ...)

h/t Target Liberty: http://www.targetliberty.com/2015/06...cardinals.html

St. Louis Cardinals Are Said to Have Breached Rival's Database
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sp...stros-fbi.html
Michael S. Schmidt (16 June 2015)

WASHINGTON - Front-office personnel for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, are under investigation by the F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors, accused of hacking into an internal network of the Houston Astros to steal closely guarded information about players.

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals employees broke into a network of the Astros that housed special databases the team had built, law enforcement officials said. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, said the officials, who were not authorized to discuss a continuing investigation.

The officials did not say which employees were the focus of the investigation or whether the team’s highest-ranking officials were aware of the hacking or authorized it. The investigation is being led by the F.B.I.’s Houston field office and has progressed to the point that subpoenas have been served on the Cardinals and Major League Baseball for electronic correspondence.

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