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Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday hit a Minnesota man with wire fraud and hacking charges alleging he attempted to extort Major League Baseball with threats to expose vulnerabilities in its computer network and distributed illegal streams of MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL games.
A Minnesota man was charged Thursday with trying to extort $150,000 from the MLB as he illegally streamed copyrighted content from major professional sports leagues online.