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Corporate espionage in baseball?

This was shaping up to be a boring Tuesday. The weather is iffy where I live (suburban New York) today and last night’s loss left a bad taste in my mouth, but then something miraculous happened…

Breaking News: St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros http://t.co/8oipBIeOrk

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 16, 2015

Yes, you are reading that correctly. The FBI did an investigation and people within the Cardinals organization, hacked the Houston Astros.

From the Times’ article:

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of the Houston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials.