Oh, almost certainly.
The web master should go to jail along with everyone who copied the material and passed it on.
Good luck with that if the webmaster is in Russia.
The Internet is not US territory. If you want to be safe, you can't go running to Uncle Sam. You have to educate yourself on how to be safe and take steps to protect yourself.
O’Reilly says that he knows who the web master was. He says that everyone knows who they are. If O’Reilly knows, the fed know.