Ex-Cardinals employee gets nearly 4 years in prison for Astros hack
A former employee of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball organization has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for hacking computers belonging to the Houston Astros, the US Justice Department said Monday.
Christopher Correa, the Cardinals' former scouting director, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Monday after pleading guilty to five counts of unauthorized access of an Astros' database on player information and the team's email system. Correa, who had worked for the Cardinals since 2009 before being fired last July, was also ordered to pay $279,038 in restitution.
Prosecutors say Correa in 2013 illegally accessed an Astros' file containing scout rankings for every player eligible for that year's draft. He also illegally viewed a page containing descriptions of performance and injuries of prospects under consideration by the Astros, as well as notes of Astros' trade discussions with other teams.
