Misappropriating trade secrets for financial gain is a punishable offense, and this data would qualify as a trade secret, at least for as long as it's not general knowledge to everyone or it has yet to be reverse-engineered. Aside from that, much of the data in these files has standard copyright and patent concerns.

Wouldn't financial gain limit it to essentially their competitors? Which renders that part irrelevant and is kind of a "no shit" to anyone actually working in processors not to include their stuff in there.

Also: financial damage

OK then, out of curiosity, what are the relevant laws being broken here?

Wire fraud and, trade secrets acts are the two that are usually applied in these cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defend_Trade_Secrets_Act

Copyright infringement probably works for them.

Is the person publishing it or are they linking people to a place where it is published?

It seems that they are the ones publishing it, from the wording of the tweets.

More likely the person publishing this isn't aware of the far reaching consequences.

You should look up Till Kottman's other work. Very aware.