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Goldman did not say how many clients were
affected. It has been seeking a court order compelling Google to
delete the email, which it said on Wednesday had yet to occur.
“Google complied with our request that it block access to the
email,” Goldman spokeswoman Andrea Raphael said. “It has also
notified us that the email account had not been accessed from
the time the email was sent to the time Google blocked access.
No client information has been breached.” A Google spokeswoman
declined to comment.
According to Goldman, the outside contractor had been testing
changes to the bank's internal processes in connection with
reporting requirements set forth by the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority.
Goldman said the contractor meant to email her report, which
contained the client data, to a "gs.com" account, but instead
sent it to a similarly named, unrelated "gmail.com" account.
The bank said a member of Google's "incident response team"
reported on June 26 that the email could not be deleted without
a court order. "Emergency relief is necessary to avoid the risk
of inflicting a needless and massive privacy violation upon
Goldman Sachs' clients, and to avoid the risk of unnecessary
reputational damage to Goldman Sachs," the bank said in court
papers.
Goldman is based in New York, and Google in Mountain View,
California.
The case is Goldman, Sachs & Co v. Google Inc, New York State
Supreme Court, New York County, No. 156295/2014.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Dan
Grebler and Cynthia Osterman)
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