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Here's how they did it: "Investigators believe Cardinals officials, concerned that Mr. Luhnow had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the

Here's how they did it: "Investigators believe Cardinals officials, concerned that Mr. Luhnow had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the Astros, examined a master list of passwords used by Mr. Luhnow and the other officials who had joined the Astros when they worked for the Cardinals. The Cardinals officials are believed to have used those passwords to gain access to the Astros’ network, law enforcement officials said."

nissimk 11y ago
And this is how they got caught: "Believing that the Astros’ network had been compromised by a rogue hacker, Major League Baseball notified the F.B.I., and the authorities in Houston opened an investigation. Agents soon found that the Astros’ network had been entered from a computer at a home that some Cardinals officials had lived in. The agents then turned their attention to the team’s front office."
carsonreinke 11y ago
Where does one get a master list?
- timboslice 11y ago
  Lot's of companies keep passwords in an unprotected Excel sheet :/
  - carsonreinke 11y ago
    Please no
- mikeryan 11y ago
  Written on a whiteboard?