Cardinals Employee Who Hacked Into Astros' Database Gets 46 Months In Prison
If you turn on ESPN right now, I bet they’re not talking about this.
I doubt they’re interrupting any of their coverage to bring you the ruling on the former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director, Chris Correa, who pleaded guilty to five counts of computer hacking this past winter. If it were the New England Patriots, though, there would be 24-hour coverage for the next three months on this story. Regardless, Correa has been sentenced to 46 months in prison, which is just under four years, for hacking into the Houston Astros’ database to “view scouting reports, amateur player evaluations, notes on trade discussions and proposed bonuses for draft picks.”
And just because Correa has now received his jail sentence does not mean that the Cardinals are off the hook now. Ken Rosenthal added that the organization will also be punished for this, as they should, because there’s no way that Correa was the only individual who was benefitting from the information that was obtained through the Astros’ database. But like I alluded to earlier, the biggest part of this story isn’t that the Cardinals are cheaters that hacked into another organization’s database to access private information, it’s the fact that NOBODY is talking about this story. Nobody. It’s insane how much the Cardinals have skated on this story.