Alarms went off when The New York Times recently reported that the St. Louis Cardinals were being investigated by the FBI and Justice Department for allegedly infiltrating the Houston Astros' internal network to steal information about players and trades.
"Sports teams are always trying to get intelligence on their rivals. And when players or coaches switch teams, there's always the threat that some sensitive data will make the move too," said James Carder, chief information security officer at Boulder's LogRhythm, which has some pro sports teams as clients. "The move could be merely sharing secrets vocally, or actually stashing the data on a storage drive before leaving the organization.