A Houston federal judge has sentenced a former high-ranking official with the St. Louis Cardinals to 46 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to five counts of hacking into the Houston Astros computers without authorization to get access to sensitive information about the team’s player roster.
Christopher Correa, the former director of baseball development for the Cardinals, pleaded guilty in January to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer. According to that plea agreement, Correa was able to gain access to the Astro’s private online database called Ground Control, which housed a wide variety of confidential data, including scouting reports, statistics and contract information.
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