Exclusive: Astros GM Jeff Luhnow speaks out about hacking scandal - SI.com
Tuesday morning’s New York Times report that the FBI and the Justice Department are investigating whether members of the front office of the St. Louis Cardinals were behind the hack of the Houston Astros ’ internal database that came to light... In the days since Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt broke the story, speculation about the breach’s details has run rampant, particularly concerning the still unknown identities, positions, methods and motivations of the alleged Cardinals’... Schmidt’s report, citing law enforcement officials, suggested that the breach was intended to disrupt the work of Jeff Luhnow—who was a Cardinals executive from 2003 until he was hired to be the Astros’ general manager in 2011—and was executed via... Luhnow said that he was not permitted to speak about the ongoing investigation—with which he and the Astros are fully cooperating—but he did address other elements of the report. One was the implication that the hackers had been able to gain access to the Astros’ database—which is called Ground Control and contains scouting and medical reports and statistical projections, among other data—because he had failed to change... Source: www.si.com
