Rachel - publicly responding to private information, even when it's from off-ECCIE sources is just foolish. It's not an excuse for HOW you knew. You need to read the guidelines:
#20 - The men and women of our board each have their respective private areas in which secure content is posted and a greater freedom of expression allowed. Each member is responsible for keeping the information in any of the private secure areas (Men's Lounge, Provider Powder Room, The Rest of the Story, posts which have been tagged as private) 100% restricted to the members who are intended to have access to that material. Revealing ANY content which was posted in one of the men's or women's private sections of the board will result in penalty, up to and including loss of your access to these areas. Full cooperation may result in a less severe penalty, and each violation will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Repeated infractions will impact the severity of punishment.
So whoever or whatever source revealed said info...is immaterial. If it was a member, that's punishable. If it was "publicly" available..you shouldn't be responding to it here.
This thread is done, and should serve as an example of what NOT to do with information, just because you have it.