Cardinals suspect in espionage case

This is some serious stuff. The FBI is investigating officials of the St. Louis Cardinals who hacked the computer system of the Astros. In this system they tried to enter a special database with player information, internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports.

The Feds are keeping their mouth shut about with Cardinals officials are suspected. The investigation has developed as far as the point where the subpoenas are sent to the Cardinals.

This case would be the very first of corporate espionage in which pro sport clubs are involved. 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,” a spokesman for baseball’s commissioner, Rob Manfred, said in a written statement.
The officials who are involved in this scandal, are not inactive, on leave or fired.

Major League Baseball informed the F.B.I. after they got a hunch that the Astros’ network had been compromised by a
crooked hacker.The authorities in Houston then opened an investigation. Agents soon found that the Astros’ network had been hacked from a computer in a home that some Cardinals officials had lived in. The agents then turned their attention to the team’s front office.