Jeff Luhnow has spoken out about the report that the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into the front office database of the Houston Astros.

One thing he discussed was the implication that the hackers had been able to gain access to Houston's database -- which is called Ground Control and contains scouting and medical reports and statistical projections -- because he or his employees had failed to change their old passwords.

"That's absolutely false," Luhnow said. "I absolutely know about password hygiene and best practices. I’m certainly aware of how important passwords are, as well as of the importance of keeping them updated. A lot of my job in baseball, as it was in high tech, is to make sure that intellectual property is protected. I take that seriously and hold myself and those who work for me to a very high standard."

The second topic Luhnow discussed was that Cardinals officials were concerned that he had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the Astros.

"I’m very aware of intellectual property and the agreements I signed," Luhnow said. "I didn’t take anything, any proprietary information. Nor have we ever received any inquiries from anybody that even suggested that we had."