This is exactly what the court filing says - he emailed excel spreadsheets with unencrypted data. Presumably from database queries hence why they mention emaili

This is exactly what the court filing says - he emailed excel spreadsheets with unencrypted data. Presumably from database queries hence why they mention emailing a database. Obviously written by people who are entirely unfamiliar with what a database even is so it makes it sound worse than it is (even though it is still bad, but not quite "send the entire database" bad.)