This reminds me of a purported "hack" back in the Governor Schwarzenegger days. An employee from a rival campaign found a public-accessible FTP directory full of audio files, which they then leaked to the press. IIRC, the California Highway Patrol opened up an investigation but ended up not pursuing charges.
edit: the other parallel, IIRC, was that part of the web site was kept private. But the user found the audio by navigating to a parent directory which was apparently open to the public:
> Essentially, aides opened the Web address, or URL, from one of Schwarzenegger’s speeches and lopped a few characters from the end of the address. That yielded a directory of audio recordings.
https://www.dailynews.com/2006/09/13/arnolds-audio-open-to-p...
edit: the other parallel, IIRC, was that part of the web site was kept private. But the user found the audio by navigating to a parent directory which was apparently open to the public:
https://www.dailynews.com/2007/02/02/chp-clears-angelides-ca...
> Essentially, aides opened the Web address, or URL, from one of Schwarzenegger’s speeches and lopped a few characters from the end of the address. That yielded a directory of audio recordings.