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WHAT!?! FBI Investigating the Cardinals.

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For hacking the Astros.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sport ... s-fbi.html
The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, for hacking into the internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel.

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 officials did not say which employees were the focus of the investigation or whether the team’s highest-ranking officials were aware of the hacking or authorized it.
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Whoa. This is a big deal. Not good, not good at all.

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Derrick Goold ‏@dgoold 1m1 minute ago

Derrick Goold retweeted NYT Sports

Well, today got interesting ...

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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.

From 1994 to 2012, the Astros and the Cardinals were division rivals, in the National League. For a part of that time, Mr. Luhnow was a Cardinals executive, primarily handling scouting and player development. One of many innovative thinkers drawn to the sport by the “Moneyball” phenomenon, he was credited with building baseball’s best minor league system, as well as drafting several players who would become linchpins of the Cardinals’ 2011 World Series-winning team.

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IN THE ZONE Sports ‏@U_R_InTheZone · 1m1 minute ago

IN THE ZONE Sports retweeted NYT Sports
Does this explain why Pujols' HR off Lidge in the #NLCS still hasn't landed yet? #STLCards #Astros

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Not to defend the Cardinals or anything, but it looks like our L33t HAXORZ skillz were simply trying the same passwords that Luhnow was too dumb to change after he left the team.

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Yeesh

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He really shouldn't have kept using billybeane1 as his password, also.

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Didn't this entire database get posted online by a hacker last year?

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Can someone send a cleaning company over to the Deadspin offices? It's bedlam over there right now.

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