Joshua Streit, 30, threatened to publicize alleged vulnerabilities within the MLB’s IT techniques except the league paid him $150,000, in response to charging paperwork.
Streit can also be charged with illegally streaming copyrighted reside video games from the MLB, Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, Nationwide Soccer League and the Nationwide Hockey League. Prosecutors alleged that Streit used stolen login credentials to entry the sports activities’ web sites and stream reside video games to his personal web site for revenue.
“One of many sufferer sports activities leagues sustained losses of roughly $3 million attributable to STREIT’s conduct,” the Southern District of New York mentioned in a press launch.
The MLB isn’t any stranger to hacking scandals.
