FBI is under investigation on suspicion that he hacked competitor information on rival team in major league

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It is clear that the FBI and the Justice Department are proceeding with the investigation on suspicion that Major League Baseball (MLB) teams intruded into the database of enemy teams and stolen confidential information such as players' analysis reports and trade consideration content. became. "Spy act" is not so rare in the professional sports world, but it is the first time in history that it became clear that such "cyber attack" was done.

Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros' Database - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/baseball/st-louis-cardinals-hack-astros-fbi.html


The charges,St. Louis CardinalsButHouston AstrosThat it illegally invaded the network of. The stolen information was that the Astros player's consideration on the trade, his own analysis on the athlete, the player's scout report, and so on.

Currently, Cardinals belongs to the middle district of the National League, Astros belongs to the West League of the American League, and there is no opportunity to compete in the regular league game, but Astros was also a member of the National League until the league reorganization in 2013. This time, Jeff Ronau, general manager of the Astros that was illegally invaded, said that he was in charge of Scouting of Cardinals, and he used the list of passwords he was using when he was enrolled in the cardinals It seems that it was used against Astros' database and it has been illegally invaded.

Cardinals says he will cooperate fully with the investigation on this case.