No it's more like you subletting an apartment to a dodgy photographer who wants to take pictures of the children's playground your back window looks out on even

No it's more like you subletting an apartment to a dodgy photographer who wants to take pictures of the children's playground your back window looks out on even though your contract explicitly forbids it subletting. The suit is against companies that use login credentials that are not theirs. It is not public information that is being scraped. It is information behind a login with a terms of service for what you are allowed to do with that login.