The accusations read like something out of a season finale for an HBO drama about Major League Baseball front offices and the lengths to which they’ll go in order to win. Repeated computer hacking, password theft, vengeance. It all seems so surreal. But it happened. It happened to the Houston Astros and general manager Jeff Luhnow, and on Friday the U.S. Attorney’s Office made public all of its findings in the case of former St. Louis Cardinals’ scouting director Chris Correa’s illegal hacking of the Astros’ proprietary Ground Control database back in 2013 and 2014.
When Correa’s underhanded, illegal activity was first discovered, the Cardinals tried to play it off as a rogue employee attempting to see if a former Cardinals’ employee (Luhnow) had taken any proprietary information with him upon leaving the organization in 2011. However, through use of Luhnow’s password from the laptop he had returned to the Cardinals upon his leaving them in 2011, Correa was able to repeatedly go behind enemy cyber-lines and access draft information, scouting reports, emails, and signing bonus data. It was far from a one-off. For the full article click here
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