He put in the right place for the autists to take up, and push the information. Looking at it in hindsite it doesn't look like anyone really went after the information, but that is also just the surface impression for all we know the whitehats got a major break on where to snoop from his information.

We are all in the dark here, and the reality of how they won may or may not ever reach the light. I hope it does, but that is my personal wishful thinking.