#FBI Investigating St. Louis Cardinals for Hacking Rivals

FBI Investigating St. Louis Cardinals for Hacking Rivals

The FBI and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel. 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.

Read the article: The New York Times

Russia Moves Toward ‘Right-to-be-Forgotten’ Law

Russian parliament gave initial approval to a law that would require Internet search sites to remove outdated or irrelevant personal information from search results on request from users. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its first reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the “right to be forgotten”, under which search engines must take down certain results that appear under a search of a person’s name.

Read the article: Reuters

Official Says U.S. Personnel Office Lacked IT Training

An Office of Personnel Management investigative official said the agency entrusted with millions of personnel records has a history of failing to meet basic computer network security requirements. Michael Esser, assistant inspector general for audit, said in testimony prepared for delivery that for years many of the people running the agency’s information technology had no IT background.

Read the article: Silicon Valley

Supreme Court Rejects Motorola Mobility Antitrust Case

The Supreme Court declined to review a pair of antitrust cases involving an international price-fixing cartel, despite the urging of some legal experts, economists and the National Association of Manufacturers. In one of the cases, a judge concluded that Motorola Mobility, a corporate victim of a price-fixing scheme, could not sue because America’s antitrust laws did not apply to Motorola’s overseas subsidiaries, even though 42 percent of the phones they assembled were shipped to the United States.