The database was obtained by an Osaarian merchant ship from a Xindi spaceship which they attacked. After the Enterprise encountered the pirates' hideout in a mysterious and ancient sphere, Ensign Hoshi Sato surmised that such a database was also in the pirates' possession, and would aid the Enterprise's search for the Xindi. With the access codes having been acquired from an Osaarian pirate that Captain Archer was holding in the brig, the database was forcibly downloaded via a comm link by Sato, as Enterprise flew less than a kilometer away from the pirate ship. (ENT: "Anomaly")