In sports, teams are always looking for ways to get ahead. Players and teams continually, frantically search for new ways to squash their competition en route to claiming another title. After all, the more they win, the more they get paid.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that involves the use of performance-enhancing drugs, substances that could help with eluding opponents, improving a grip, or theatrical flopping \u2014 an edge is an edge right? Last year, we saw Major League Baseball\u2019s St. Louis Cardinals take the competitive edge to a new level \u2014 hacking.<\/p>\n
Yes, you read that correctly. Back in June of last year, Dennis Fisher<\/a> penned a story on Threatpost<\/a> with this lede: \u201cIn one of the more bizarre alleged hacking stories to emerge recently, federal authorities are investigating whether employees\u00a0of the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into systems belonging to the Houston Astros and got access to internal team conversations about players, trades, scouting reports, and other sensitive information.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As anyone knows who reads Kaspersky Daily or Threatpost regularly, hacking is nothing new, and it actually happens quite regularly. What made this hack noteworthy was not that it happened, but rather how<\/em> it happened.<\/p>\n Houston Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow was a polarizing executive during his time with the Cardinals. And according to initial reports on this story, it appeared that executives from the Cardinals tried to access the Astros\u2019 systems by using Luhnow\u2019s old passwords.<\/p>\n Ex-#Cardinals<\/a> Exec Sentenced Four Years for #Astros<\/a> Hack: https:\/\/t.co\/EzrMyQMrCE<\/a> #MLB<\/a> via @threatpost<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/n2ztP1OVJM<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n