That is hammered down the line and left into the corner.

It is gone.

We're going to start this episode about computer hacking with a little baseball.

Randall Gretchen puts the Cardinals on the board in the first inning with a home run right down the line.

1-0.0. St. Louis.

That's from the first game of the 2014 National League Division Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the L.A. Dodgers.

The Cardinals eventually won the series, 10 to 9.

They later lost the league championship to San Francisco.

Still, a pretty impressive season. But that same year, in the team's front office, something else was

going on. You've got this guy working for the Cardinals, Chris Correa. That's Josephine Wolf. She teaches

cybersecurity policy at Tufts University. She's also a baseball

fan. Chris Correa, the Cardinals executive, was looking at scouting reports and putting together

lists of players the team might want to hire. And he has some former co-workers on the Cardinals,

some folks who used to work there with him, who leave and

go to work for the Astros. And when they leave, they turn over as you do your work computer and

also the password or the account you used to access it. And Correa, who's still with the Cardinals

after they leave, gets this idea that maybe the passwords haven't changed that much in their new roles.

Maybe they've set up their new accounts with the Astros and used us the same or very similar

password, and he tries it out with one of his former coworkers, and it works.

Correa was able to get into the Houston Astros' internal computer system.

He could see all their stats, what players they had their

eyes on, all of it. And he did this more than once. He continues to sort of access this through

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