Jail sentence for MLB exec hacking another team. Yes, real jail.
Not often that we are able to dip our toes into a story on ESPN.com and point to an investment thematic. In this case, it’s not so much to point out the direction of our Safety & Security theme, but rather the courts sending a message about the seriousness of the issue. After all, we’re about baseball here. A game. And this executive is going to jail for 46 months for accessing another team’s computer system. Wow.
HOUSTON — A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros’ player-personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs.Christopher Correa had pleaded guilty in January to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014, the same year he was promoted to director of baseball development in St. Louis. He was fired last summer and now faces 46 months behind bars and a court order to pay $279,038 in restitution. He had faced up to five years in prison on each count.
