I wonder if the ideal way to expose this would have been to approach some law firm showing that you (just you) were wronged by the City, here's the data, some b

I wonder if the ideal way to expose this would have been to approach some law firm showing that you (just you) were wronged by the City, here's the data, some basic auditing showing where it was from, statements by the city, hackers, etc. Then just be like, yeah, there's like 3 TB of data there, maybe it's class-action worthy, hint, hint.