Comment This isn't a leak. (Score 5, Insightful) 185
The article makes this situation comparable to the current wikileaks situation, which it isn't.
Some IT person left the data freely accessible on the internet and eventually a crawler found it. They're guessing it was a malicious person but in all odds it is not.
This is just another IT mistake not an act of whistleblowing or terrorism or something else the government wants to make illegal.