The Saint Louis Cardinals hacked the Astros this year, illegally mining the latter baseball team’s most guarded info via a protected network database, according to FBI and Justice Department officials.
Valuable scout and trade reports, as well as proprietary stats, are just some of the top secret data thought to have been pinched during the calculated security breach, although which Houston personnel were specifically targeted hasn’t been disclosed yet.
The domestic hack attack is the first of its kind, say government investigators, who are accustomed instead to pursuing foreign citizens and entities for such cyber espionage capers -- not a Major League Baseball team.
A spokesperson for the MLB’s commissioner told the New York Times that the organization “has been aware of and has fully cooperated with the federal investigation into the illegal breach of the Astros’ baseball operations database.”
The inquiry into exactly how the Cardinals hacked the Astros, and who was behind it, is still ongoing.
