The Goldman Sachs stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in shown in this July 16, 2013 file photo. Goldman Sachs, the biggest standalone U.S. investment bank, shuttered its GSessions electronic bond-trading platform in 2014. BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, closed its Aladdin bond trading network after less than a year in 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files
NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Wednesday said Google Inc has blocked access to an e-mail containing confidential client data that a contractor sent to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, an error that the bank said threatened 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 on Friday in a New York state court in Manhattan. Goldman did not say how many clients were affected. It has been seeking a court order compelling Google to delete the e-mail, which it said on Wednesday had yet to occur.
