By now you’ve probably heard that the St. Louis Cardinals “hacked” into an internal network used by the Houston Astros to scout and recruit new players.
Talk about a neat story. A federal investigation into a baseball team hacking another team? Bring in Chris Pratt as the lead actor and you have a blockbuster. But that’s only until you realize that the “hacking” was, or appears to have been, little more than someone using an old password to log into a rival’s network.
That’s a hack in the same way that a student peering over a teacher’s shoulder as they enter a password is a hack — which is to say that it’s nothing of the sort.