Security News > 2021 > November > Pirate Sports Streamer Gets Busted, Pivots to MLB Extortion

A 30-year-old alleged sports content pirate in Minneapolis, Minn., has found himself on the receiving end of a criminal complaint alleging that he not only stole user account credentials and sold access to pirated sports content.

According to prosecutors, the MLB lost at least $2,995,272 due to Streit's alleged theft of games.

By June 2021, Streit started having trouble accessing the MLB platform and asked for help, the complaint said.

The FBI alleged that Streit wasn't done trying to cash in on his illegal MLB system access.

Just before the MLB Playoffs, on Sept. 28, Streit allegedly emailed an MLB Executive and demanded $150,000 to prevent him from disclosing the league's network vulnerability to the media.

"I believe that although Joshua Streit, a/k/a 'Josh Brody,' the defendant, approached MLB, his simultaneous intrusion into MLB accounts and illegal streaming of MLB content on the Illicit Streaming Website indicated that Streit acted knowingly and with the intent to extort the MLB.".

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