I immediately thought of Catholic Cardinals, not a baseball team.

For me it is another one of those side issues that really don't matter. Sports just don't interest me

Basically the Cardinals lost an employee ti Houston. The employee created a database at STL. He recreated it in Houston. STL tried his old password, it worked, they grabbed rhe database contents and posted it online.

Stupid ajd childish but very much a crume.

The myth of hard hacking (trying billions of passwords until one fits) just isnt the way hackers get into systems. So if you didn't tell ANYONE your password, changing a password isn't going to make a different.

We have several different ways of hacking now days and one of the biggest ones now is social engineering. There are many drinkers, gamblers and such that can be persuaded to give their password. If they don't give it out in the first place, then they don't need to be changing it so often.

I'm not saying to never change your password, but rather just don't give it out. Several recent studies have shown that if you have to change your password too often, they you lose security as more people will have to write it down. They found that the optimal time was 6 months, not the two months that so many companies do now days. Unfortunately, the people who make policy aren't usually very tech savy.

I work in a 36 floor building and I can go to any cube and there is a 30% chance that I can find a password (under the keyboard, mousepad, coffee cup, behind a picture, etc...). Just be diligent and don't walk away while logged on, or DONT GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORD. (You would be surprised how many people do give theirs out.)

not specifically about passwords but how those stupid "internet games" like porn-star name are actually attempts to obtain information typically used as security questions...like "name of first pet", "street you grew up on", "father's middle name", "mother's maiden name" and "name of your first school."

I got mocked for the effort.

and Brady to it somehow the average sports fan in this country will be sure to ignore it.

and walk him down the streets of Boston with Goddell walking behind him ringing a bell and saying "Shame!".

Can't be. This must be The Onion or something.

However, I can see some geek in the Cardinal's data center idly wondering if he can hack the Astros based on the info given so far, and making the initial penetration without the knowledge of the front office. But if there is evidence that the Cardinals used such uncovered information, then higher management is clearly implicated.

-- Mal

How much is a winning baseball team worth?

StL is worth 1.4 billion. KC Royals are worth 700 million. STL is a perennial winner. Royals, except for lasr year, perennial loser.

Seems like 700 million reasons to stay competitive.

That said, while still a crime, might have just been a malicious prank.

This - from the elitist self-anointed best team in America???

Somewhere along the way they turned to the dark side...

These teams are worth billions. It's just the sane as a business hacking another business and stealing corporate info, very much a crime.