Google Agrees To Delete Goldman Email

Mark Melin

Published onJuly 3, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Talk about costly typos. A mistaken e-mail address typo had placed in jeopardy “highly confidential brokerage account information” of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) customers and the investment bank is suing to get a do over, court documents reveal.

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Goldman Sachs brokerage information leaked

According to a report in Reuters, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) contractor is accused of e-mailing confidential Goldman brokerage information to the wrong e-mail address.

A Goldman Sachs contractor apparently used a .gmail email extension on the address rather than a .gs and sent the e-mail to a person other than the intended Goldman target.

Goldman Sachs seeks Google's...

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.