As a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) this whole situation has set off so many bells I don't expect it to end with Correa. I have no idea what the MLB will do as far as the Cardinals organization, but there were a lot of laws broken here and they won't end with Correa, especially if he is pleading guilty which presumes he will be rolling on other people indicted. They will have already looked at how many copies of this data were made. They will already have looked at all communication about this data. Every email, every instant message, every text message, they'll mine the Facebook accounts, Twitter, every other social network Correa has an account with, or was accessed from any computer that was regularly accessed by Correa and was subpoena'd. If he deleted it, unless he REALLY knew how to delete things, it will be found. Every person who received information related to these multiple break-ins is at risk of indictment.

This is a high profile case that makes prosecutors into Congressmen/women and they're not going to just hush up about it. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some Congressman or Senator on the Congressional Committee on Oversight or Senate Sub-Committee on Anti-Trust, Business Rights, and Competition grabbed this as an election year talking point to help their re-election. The former has William Lacy Clay(D-MO) from Missouri who may want to play the "cleaning up the team we love card" and Will Hurd (R-TX) who may want to defend his home team, the latter doesn't have anyone specifically in the region but is an easy, cheap way to make a few headlines. Man, it hurts that this is an election year.

I'm really sad this all happened, and just disappoints me as a fan of baseball, but I hope it does build some decent policies into MLB governance around IT security and the game we love.