This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it. Once it's posted online, it's just not secret anymore. At some point it becomes public information.

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.

What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.

Reverse engineering is not clearly illegal.

The bad guy will have gone through many, many steps to conceal his identity, through pirated or hacked accounts.