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Reuters reports:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a "needless and massive" breach of privacy.
The breach occurred on June 23 and included "highly confidential brokerage account information," Goldman said in a complaint filed last Friday in a New York state court in Manhattan.
Ars Technica reports:
At the request of investment bank Goldman Sachs, Google has blocked access to a sensitive e-mail that the bank mistakenly sent to a random Gmail account. Google confirmed to Goldman Sachs that the e-mail had not yet been opened by the recipient, according to a report late Wednesday from Reuters.
The e-mail in question, filled with confidential brokerage account information, was accidentally sent to a gmail.com address instead of a gs.com address by a contractor on June 23. Goldman Sachs tried to contact the e-mail account holder and then got in touch with Google, which initially said it would not take action without a court order. Goldman Sachs then filed for such a court order in a New York state court.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @12:11AM
...It's not even funny.
End-to-end email encryption - But that requires an external
program like PGP or GPG to do this and it is cumbersome and
potentially error prone.
In-house private https webmail system - Read your messages
securely anywhere in the world with just an internet connection
and a webbrowser. This is probably the best solution. Then
send an SMS message to their cellphone to log in
and check their messages in the webmail system. NO URL or
email address is sent to avoid phishing.
Call them up on the phone and ask them to come down
to the office to meet and tell them the message in person.
See, no security leaks in case the wrong party is contacted.
However, this doesn't cover negligence or malice on the part
of the operators of such systems for the benefits of their
clients/customers.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 05 2014, @01:14AM
Or don't permit attachments: all files belong on a document sharing server that can enforce access restrictions (and provide collaboration tools). That would probably take a giant load off the e-mail servers too.