The St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department for hacking into the Astros internal network to steal information on player personnel, a person involved in the investigation said. The Astros and MLB are aware and cooperating with the probe, which was first reported by the New York Times.
Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a computernetwork of the 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 told the Times.