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Why is the hacking of the Houston Astros by the St. Louis Cardinals a story and NOT the Records of ALL government employees being stolen?
Sports Scandals, Major and Minor
Posted on June 16, 2015 by John Hinderaker in Sports
A bombshell in the world of professional baseball: the St. Louis Cardinals, probably baseball’s most respected organization, are under investigation for hacking into the Houston Astros’ computer network to steal information:
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 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.
It sounds like the infiltration may have stemmed from personal animus:
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.
If these allegations turn out to be true–and right now, it doesn’t look good for the Cardinals–the scandal will dwarf any comparable precedent. The Patriots’ “spygate” was trivial, and “deflategate,” as I have written here and here, is at best an exceptionally weak case.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/sports-scandals-major-and-minor.php
Sports Scandals, Major and Minor
Posted on June 16, 2015 by John Hinderaker in Sports
A bombshell in the world of professional baseball: the St. Louis Cardinals, probably baseball’s most respected organization, are under investigation for hacking into the Houston Astros’ computer network to steal information:
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 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.
It sounds like the infiltration may have stemmed from personal animus:
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.
If these allegations turn out to be true–and right now, it doesn’t look good for the Cardinals–the scandal will dwarf any comparable precedent. The Patriots’ “spygate” was trivial, and “deflategate,” as I have written here and here, is at best an exceptionally weak case.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/sports-scandals-major-and-minor.php
