Knicks sue Raptors over former employee taking team info with him to Toronto

[BKIslandersFan]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/sport/new-york-knicks-toronto-raptors-alleged-stolen-proprietary-spt-intl/index.html

Surprised this has not been posted yet. WOnder how this impacts relations between Leafs and Rangers.

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[TheGreenTBer]

Lmao at "Knicks team info"

What was it, the ten commandments of James dolan?

 

[aqib]

Why would Toronto want info from the Knicks?

 

[joestevens29]

Why would Toronto want info from the Knicks?

Do the opposite?

 

[tucker3434]

Dumb. That’s the type of thing that will get you blacklisted. And from the knicks? Risk/reward just isn’t there.

 

[Kane One]

Didn’t someone with the St Louis Cardinals go to prison for this when joining another team? Or the other way around.

 

[BattleBorn]

It's essentially theft since the Knicks are paying for the info and ol' boy's just walking out the front door with it and handing it to the new organization. I'm assuming it's all prospect or pro scouting.

 

[Voight]

Didn’t someone with the St Louis Cardinals go to prison for this when joining another team? Or the other way around.

Other ways round - the Astros recruited Jeff Luhnow from the Cards (to be their GM), a Cardinals employee then hacked into the 'Stros database after Luhnow got there.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Why would Toronto want info from the Knicks?

I don't know maybe because one team is trending up since this regime took over and the other one is flaming down since their championship?

 

[GindyDraws]

Didn’t someone with the St Louis Cardinals go to prison for this when joining another team? Or the other way around.

I think it was when he went to the Astros and gave the Cardinals information.

 

[93LEAFS]

Good luck to Dolan. MLSE is probably one of the few ownerships that can outspend him on lawyers and make this go on forever or force a settlement.

 

[JianYang]

The jokes write themselves here.

 

[McGarnagle]

Didn’t someone with the St Louis Cardinals go to prison for this when joining another team? Or the other way around.

Other ways round - the Astros recruited Jeff Luhnow from the Cards (to be their GM), a Cardinals employee then hacked into the 'Stros database after Luhnow got there.

Basically, Luhnow brought some data analysts with him from St. Louis to Houston. The scouting director in St. Louis who was friends with some of those guys guessed (accurately) that they'd be dumb enough to use the same password to log in to the database at their new job so he managed to get internal scouting reports and data spreadsheets and such.

The dude got sentenced to prison for 46 months for that, which is a lot. I can see the MLB banning him and the Cardinal organization having to compensate the Astros, but calling it a criminal hacking operation is generous - he just recycled a colleague's old password at a new job and spied on some confidential info. Funny thing is he probably gets away with it and no one if he doesn't start leaking internal emails about trade targets to Deadspin in an attempt to embarrass Luhnow publicly.

 

[Voight]

Basically, Luhnow brought some data analysts with him from St. Louis to Houston. The scouting director in St. Louis who was friends with some of those guys guessed (accurately) that they'd be dumb enough to use the same password to log in to the database at their new job so he managed to get internal scouting reports and data spreadsheets and such.

The dude got sentenced to prison for 46 months for that, which is a lot. I can see the MLB banning him and the Cardinal organization having to compensate the Astros, but calling it a criminal hacking operation is generous - he just recycled a colleague's old password at a new job and spied on some confidential info. Funny thing is he probably gets away with it and no one if he doesn't start leaking internal emails about trade targets to Deadspin in an attempt to embarrass Luhnow publicly.

Yea, the prison term always seemed way too excessive. The guy didn't exactly hack into the CIA or NSA and leak classified documents. Nor did the crime have any effect on people/the general public yet they threw the book at the guy.