The Cardinals scouting director who was fired last July for his alleged role in the hacking scandal that engulfed the club pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges.
Chris Correa pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Houston to five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer.
Correa had been charged Dec. 22, but the case was sealed until he appeared in court.
"Stupid, I know," Correa told the judge when asked about his actions during his plea hearing, according to a Houston Chronicle reporter present in the courtroom.
Charging documents made public Friday afternoon say that from at least March 2013 to the end of June 2014, Correa accessed the email account of one Astros employee, “Victim A,” and the accounts of that employee and another, "Victim B," in the Astros proprietary database known as “Ground Control.