Get over it
That’s a pretty far reaching espionage. It’s one thing to join another corporation and reveal some inner workings.
It’s another entirely to use your old credentials to hack into a competitors computer systems and continue accessing all of their data.
Although the Knicks also need to be much better with their security.
its not detailed in this piece, but if i remember the original details:
- it wasn’t old credentials, the employee in question was still employed by the Knicks at the time
- consequently there wasn’t any hacking done, just usage of the existing log in for a platform called Synergy
- Synergy is used by every NBA team and the video-enhanced offering allows for the curation of playlists/clips. the employee in question linked these videos in emails to the Raptors staff (an example was clips around guarding Luka Doncic?)
- any team with access to Synergy can recurate these videos, there’s just likely legwork in the process (i have no idea what Synergy’s ease-of-life features are for transferring user settings/creations to a different team-based account)
I wouldn’t want the league presiding over this case either if I had the accusations levied against me that Toronto alleged against the Knicks. Regardless of the criminality of the case, it damages the integrity of the league so the chances of being found faultless by the league can’t be very significant. Attempting to avoid that makes sense. Pretty sure it’s still within the leagues code of conduct jurisdiction, but the NCAA being such a toothless governing body makes the idea of legal challenges to governing bodies of sports a lot more appealing.