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For hacking into Houston Astros system -- per NY Times article this AM:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/baseball/st-louis-cardinals-hack-astros-fbi.html?emc=edit_na_20150616&nlid=58473245&_r=1

 

"WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel. 

 

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of theHouston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, the officials said.

 

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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Report: FBI investigating Cardinals for hacking Astros database

 

June 16, 2015  by Mike Axisa Leave a Comment

Well this is something. According to Michael Schmidt, the FBI and Justice Department are investigating the Cardinals for hacking into the Astros’ proprietary database to steal information about their player evaluation and statistical analysis methods. You may remember that last year some trade information was leaked from Houston’s database.

Here’s more on the Cardinals story from Schmidt:

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of the Houston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, the officials said.

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.

Investigators believe Cardinals officials, concerned that Mr. Luhnow had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the Astros, examined a master list of passwords used by Mr. Luhnow and the other officials who had joined the Astros when they worked for the Cardinals. The Cardinals officials are believed to have used those passwords to gain access to the Astros’ network, law enforcement officials said.

Obviously this is very bad for the Cardinals, who have been a model organization (on the field, anyway) for about two decades now. Schmidt says this is the first known case of corporate espionage involving sports teams, though rival companies hacking into each other’s databases is hardly uncommon. It’s usually done through a third party in a foreign country, however. Schmidt makes it sound like a bunch of Cardinals folks just tried a bunch of Luhnow’s old passwords from home.

Luhnow was a very successful yet polarizing scouting executive with the Cardinals before taking over as the Astros GM a few years ago. MLB has not yet handed down any discipline but it is surely coming. Firings, suspensions, heavy fines … I imagine everything is in play at this point, not to mention legal ramifications. No, this doesn’t involve the Yankees, but gosh, what a story.

- See more at: http://riveraveblues.com/2015/06/report-fbi-investigating-cardinals-hacking-astros-database-121956/#sthash.C4z03pyN.dpuf

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   Actually it is not that surprising.  It happens in the real world why shouldn't happen in sports. I remember when the same thing happened to Man City Football Club over scouting information.  I don't remember who it was traced backed to.  Probably the Rags (i.e. Man United.)

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Cardinals fans are a bunch of toothless, racist, sister-******* peckerwoods who somehow manage to be smarmy about everything they and their team do. This story makes me happy in my pants.

 

Best fans in baseball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• In the wake of today’s Times report that the Cardinals are being investigated for hacking into the Astros’ database, Brian Cashman said today that the Yankees actually beefed up their own database security last year when a bunch of Astros information leaked. “We felt very secure,” Cashman said. “But when that happened to Houston — very intelligent people in their own right — we added some more measures, spent some more money, to further protect what’s privileged. It’s more inconvenient for us now to access our stuff, but we looked for where the vulnerabilities were, made some adjustments, spent some money to upgrade the process.”

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Absolutely.  This is serious.  Really interested to see what the league does.  You have to ban them from the post-season, right? 

 

Not sure if it's fair to punish the players and fans for something some nerd in the front office did

 

 

I say take away several top draft picks, those will hurt down the long run.  

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Nobody hates these dickwads more than I do and I've got about 20 of their deep dyed fans infiltrated into just about every aspect of my life.

Would love to give them the Cheatriots treatment and now just laugh them off as sorry cheats that can't succeed fair playing field.

But if this turns out to be some nerd in the front office without any further subscription from the organization - that's, unfortunately, not going to hold the water I'd like if any at all.    

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Absolutely.  This is serious.  Really interested to see what the league does.  You have to ban them from the post-season, right?

A high quality use of federal resources.

Which is how you get $18 trillion in debt.

And counting.

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