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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals following a hack attack on the internal networks of the Houston Astros baseball team:
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.
Law enforcement officials believe the hacking was executed by vengeful front-office employees for the Cardinals hoping to wreak havoc on the work of Jeff Luhnow, the Astros' general manager who had been a successful and polarizing executive with the Cardinals until 2011.
Also at NPR, the Washington Post, and The Register.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Wednesday June 17 2015, @12:30PM
The same guy worked on IT systems for both teams. He used the same passwords on both systems. So the "hacking" consisted of logging in to the other team's database. How pathetic is that?
I suppose I can see why this might, technically, be illegal: in the same sense that it's still theft if someone steals the wallet you left lying on a park bench. Just why it's worth the time of a full-on federal investigation by the FBI? Fresh out of structuring crimes to prosecute? No more idiots they can entrap into pretending to be terrorist? Sounds like they need a budget cut.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @01:46PM
No, it's realizing that you have a spare set of keys to someone's car so you take that for a joy ride, leave it parked in a slum and post pix on Instagram.
That's a crime.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:01PM
I almost submitted a story about this yesterday... but I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word hack.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday June 17 2015, @04:03PM
Well, first off, the definition of "hack" has changed. Yes, when I was a teenager making guitar fuzzboxes out of broken transistor radios that was hacking. There were few computer networks then.
"Hack" has several different, unrelated definitions. A hack is a taxi driver, or an author. As a verb it can mean cutting, as in "hack down a tree".
I dislike the changed meaning of the word "gay" far more. It doesn't describe the people it refers to well, and changes the meaning of centuries of song, poetry, and literature.
BTW, if you're that concerned with the language, learn to use quotation marks; they should be around the last word of your comment.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:47PM
That's why we put quotation marks around it. Quite useful.
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