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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Of Greek Gods and Data Breaches

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The sorry story of Chris Correa, the St. Louis Cardinal executive convicted of hacking into the Houston Astros computer system expanded last month when Federal Judge Lynn Hughes unsealed details about the extent of the...more

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Major League Baseball fines Cardinals and Plucks Draft Picks for Hacking the Astros

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It doesn’t always pay to be a hacker. Major League Baseball (MLB) this week made a strong statement about its tolerance for teams hacking other teams. We previously reported on the incident when a Cardinals employee hacked...more

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Business Litigation Alert: "Business Lessons from the Database Hack of the Houston Astros"

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Christopher Correa, a former scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, was recently sentenced to almost four years in prison for hacking the Houston Astros player-personnel database. While it seems far-fetched that hacking would...more

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Ex-Cardinals scouting director sentenced to serve time in jail for Astros database hacking

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Back in January, we wrote about the ex-Cardinals Scouting Director pleading guilty to hacking the Houston Astros database. Now, this week, Christopher Correa, former scouting director and director of baseball development, was...more

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Major League Baseball investigating Cardinals-Astros hacking

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Promptly following the sentencing of Christopher Correa on July 18, 2016, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Major League Baseball (MLB) is looking further into the hacking incident involving...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Former Cardinals Scouting Director Pleads Guilty to Hacking Astros’ Computer Systems

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Economic espionage and computer hacking can touch all industries and business types. Computer hacking is a federal crime, and federal prosecutors are aggressively targeting cases involving the unauthorized access of a...more

King & Spalding

G20 Nations Reach Economic Cyber-Espionage Pledge

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On November 16, 2015, the leaders of the “Group of 20” (“G20”) – the world’s richest and most powerful nations – reached an agreement not to conduct economic cyber-espionage. The agreement, reached during the G20’s...more

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Project CAMERASHY Details Cyberespionage By China’s Military

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In a story reminiscent of a Tom Clancy plot, the Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday on “meticulously documented” cyberespionage conducted by China’s People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) Unit 78020 to further strategic...more

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Hacking Your Rivals – Corporate Espionage in Major League Baseball

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As we approach the dog days of summer, baseball season is again in full bloom. We previously discussed old-fashioned sign stealing in the context of teams trying to gain a competitive advantage during an actual game. But it...more

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