Correa sentenced to nearly four years
assigned the case who worked diligently to ferret out all the facts. Today, justice was done.”
The breach was first reported in June 2014.
In a letter written by Correa, he said he was “overwhelmed with remorse and regret for my actions. I violated my values and it was wrong. ... I behaved shamefully. The whole episode represents the worst thing I’ve done in my life by far.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Correa admitted to illegally accessing the Astros’ proprietary information from March 2013 through at least March 2014. The Astros’ rankings for every eligible player in the draft as rated by the team’s scouts and regional scouting reports of prospects were among the information Correa hacked into in 2013.
Correa was able to obtain password information from a laptop that was turned into him from a Cardinals employee who had left St. Louis to take a job with the Astros. Correa used variations of the passwords on the laptop to gain entry into the Astros servers.
“While today’s sentencing ... marks the end of the government’s investigation, we also understand that the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball will now conduct its own investigation of this matter,” Cardinals Chairman and CEO Bill DeWitt Jr. in a statement. “As we did with the government during its investigation, we intend to fully cooperate.”