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Here's what we know (from the St Louis beat writer):

"What was the intent? The argument here it was a malicious attack...were they trying to gain a competitive advantage or were they just playing a prank or trying to humble the Astros. I'm tending to think...they were trying to humble the Astros or try to show off they could. At the time...the Houston Astros' Ground Control was available, you could have found it. It wasn't cloaked very well. Now some of these teams have cloaked their internal (network). Then a story ran in the Houston Chronicle in March 2014 that included a photo and in that photo the address of their internal database on the web was available. Through that portal there were multiple attempts...of unapproved access to their internal database. Now, which one was the Cardinals? What were the Cardinals trying to do? That's what's not clear. It will become clear. What they know is at some point in time, they found an entry point from a computer at a home in Palm Beach that was being used by multiple Cardinal front-office officials."

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

There's no evidence of that. The only mention thus far is that the Cards broke into it to see if he stole any data from them. There's no confirmation of what you stated. And even if they thought that information was taken, the proper way to handle it is to alert authorities, not break into the system.

That's pure conjecture as well. We don't know who did or why it was done. It could have been some ex-Cardinals staff mad at Ledlow for not taking them to Houston. It could have been lower level guys on the Cards or it could have been John Mozeliak himself. We just know it was from a CPU in Florida at a place where some Cards front office guys were staying.

The Deadspin article is ridiculous as well. Deadspin basically piggybacked off some random hackers a year ago and are now claim it "could have been" from Cardinals Execs. The reality is once the database location was posted, anyone could have hacked in. Time will tell the extent of what Cardinals employees did.

I think this will sort itself out pretty quickly. DeWitt has made a pretty strong stance on penalties for those involved:

“These are serious allegations that don’t reflect who we are as an organization,” DeWitt said in the release. “We are committed to getting to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible, and if anyone within our organization is determined to be involved in anything inappropriate, they will be held accountable.”