Investigate all crimes uncovered, and prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
The incentives become for the state to pony up bitcoin to any hacker that will obtain evidence against alleged criminals and have them "publish" it. Then the state is free to use the evidence without any pesky search warrants or judicial oversight.
Because for a start the source is tainted, and nothing ensures that the alleged evidence used to extort Rui Pinto's targets was not entirely made up.
Secondly, although the accusations deserve an investigation, accepting prejudicial info release by criminals following a botched extortion campaign ends up validating extortion as a business model.