these attorneys were not supposed to share it with any of the russians. some how the fbi says wound up in the hands of russians and created a web page linking to these documents and within these documents you had the real documents but the other thing that the fbi found was is that there was fake documents. they altered the document ps all in an effort to discredit the mueller investigation. now, someone from this web page, from this hacking group e essentially did contact some reporters here in the u.s. trying to share this information with them. that is perhaps how the special counsel's office learned of this. if fbi went back and did some work. they found this web page originated in russia. they are saying it was done to try to discredit the investigation. the other quick point here is that the mueller team has been fighting this company, the lawyers here in the u.s. from