Setting aside the release of this information, why was anyone able to get ahold of it? That's where the responsibility (and breach of public trust) starts.
Sharepoint is going to be the end of us all. It's always just jammed full of juicy stuff like this.
Not just SharePoint. Crawling a machine for special files is pretty simple. Here is a little script I used for a while. Could be modified to look for file headers(more specific) but who is going to change a .doc to a .pdf for security reasons?
#!/usr/bin/python
import os,shutil
exts = [".txt",".doc",".docx",".xls",".xlsx",".ppt",".pptx"]
startpath = os.environ['HOMEDRIVE']
def find(none, directory, filenames):
for file in filenames:
for ext in exts:
if file.endswith(ext):
fullfile = os.path.join(directory,file)
try:
shutil.copy(fullfile,file)
except IOError:
pass # access denied
os.path.walk(startpath,find, None)