Wasn't one of the reason Waymo (Google) figured out he took the files because one of the vendors accidentally contacted Waymo instead of Uber when they did an R

Wasn't one of the reason Waymo (Google) figured out he took the files because one of the vendors accidentally contacted Waymo instead of Uber when they did an RFQ (since the designs were almost the same). I wonder how different things would be if that didn't happen.