ST. LOUIS — For federal prosecutors to file the most likely criminal charge to result from the hacking of a Houston Astros website, the attack would have to be both malicious and costly, said defense lawyers who have handled such cases.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in the 1980s to go after hackers breaking into and damaging government computers, would be “a perfect fit” based on media reports, said H. Dean Steward, a California lawyer and former federal public defender, “assuming they can prove some sort of malicious intent.”
”You’ve got to be doing something bad.