Just the information in article is valuable in helping track them down. The number of people involved, their communication platform of choice, and the age, gend

Just the information in article is valuable in helping track them down. The number of people involved, their communication platform of choice, and the age, gender, location of the participants. Assuming it’s all true, of course. It also sounds like the journalist corroborated some of the hackers’ claims by confirming non-public information about the hacks with law enforcement. That’s particularly valuable to law enforcement. It verifies some of their findings for them.