Man City fear scouting database was hacked by rival Premier League club
Manchester City FC believes that Scout7, its online performance analysis system, has been hacked, and has brought in ‘computer espionage experts’ to discover what has happened.
A report in today’s Sunday Mirror suggests that a rival Premier League club is to blame for the infiltration of the system which holds detailed scouting reports on every player who has been targeted both home and abroad.
An investigation into the hacking, which could compromise deals and reveal information, is currently underway.
A Premier League chief scout told Sunday People Sport: “The scouting industry as a whole is a fairly small one.
“That means of course that clubs do sometimes know which players are being checked out and by which clubs.
“Having someone else – especially a rival – access that information and see which players you are looking at, which players you may buy and which ones are being monitored over a defined period would be seen as catastrophic.”
It has been suggested that both professional and personal details of candidates were accessed.