[stan_rogers]

No. Those laws only make it illegal to release information, or insufficiently protect it, in a legal relationship of trust and guardianship (and to gather such information by pretending to be party to such a relationship). No such relationship exists here, and unless a SSN (or equivalent protected identifier) was released, it's merely ethically questionable, not illegal.

[ufmace]

Even if it was, lawsuits are entirely public, and filing and litigating one would result in exponentially more publicity than this article has already given him.