St. Louis Cardinals Under Investigation For Hacking Houston Astros
The FBI and US federal prosecutors are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for hacking the computers of the Houston Astros to purloin guarded information about player personnel it was reported Tuesday.
Compromised information included internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports according to law enforcement.
There is evidence that officials of the Cardinals, who won the Y 2006 and Y 2011 World Series and are one of the sport’s most respected franchises, broke into a network of special databases, the report said.
“Major League Baseball has been aware of and has fully cooperated with the federal investigation into the illegal breach of the Astros’ baseball operations database,” MLB said in a statement.
“Once the investigative process has been completed by federal law enforcement officials, we will evaluate the next steps and will make decisions promptly.”
The Cardinals, who own a league-best 42-21 record this season, have won the World Series 11 times, 2nd only to the New York Yankees. They have reached “the Fall Classic” 19 times, most recently in Y 2013 when they lost to the Boston Red Sox.
Authorities believe the hacking was performed by front-office employees hoping to undermine the work of Houston General Manager Jeff Luhnow, an innovative former Cardinals executive who left in late Y 2011 to join the Astros.
The Cardinals said they have “fully cooperated with the investigation and will continue to do so.”
Tracing the breach led the FBI to a home that “some Cardinals officials lived in,” according to the report.
The Houston office of the FBI would neither confirm nor deny an investigation, but said: “The FBI aggressively investigates all potential threats to public and private sector systems.”
“Once our investigations are complete, we pursue all appropriate avenues to hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace,” it said.
The Astros, who have never won the World Series, initially believed they were hacked by a rogue operator. The baseball club said it is “actively cooperating” with the hacking investigation.
Houston and St. Louis were National League division rivals from Ys 1994 to 2012 before the Astros moved to the American League.
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