The post claimed that hackers exploited a vulnerability in the programming language Java on the computer of Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl, who specializes in cybersecurity.
K. Rowling, was on welfare raising her little girl when her agent called to tell her that Bloomsbury would publish her book about an adolescent wizard named Harry Potter.
Ms. Rowling's agent, Neil Blair, said that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the U.K. for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction.
The warning followed an embarrassing incident a year earlier when an adviser to the former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown had his BlackBerry stolen by a woman suspected of being a Chinese intelligence agent.
Given the free agent flame-outs in Boston such as JD Drew, John Lackey, Carl Crawford, and Daisuke Matsuzaka (Dice K), Mr. Epstein will need to shore up his ability to sign the right free-agent talent.