A federal judge in San Jose, California denied Wyoming-based Rocky Mountain Bank's plea to prevent the disclosure of information about a data breach arising from an errant Gmail message.
The judge said in his ruling, "An attempt by a bank to shield information about an unauthorized disclosure of confidential customer information until it can determine whether or not that information has been further disclosed and/or misused does not constitute a compelling reason that overrides the public's common law right of access to court filings."
The bank seeks non-disclosure due to an email message sent in error to a Gmail subscriber that was intended for a bank customer. The message that was sent contained an attachment including confidential customer information for 1,325 individual and business accounts, according to the court's summary of the case. The information sent allegedly includes names, addresses, tax identification numbers, and loan information. It was only supposed to contain loan information for one of the bank’s clients.
The judge has allowed the Gmail address of the accidental recipient of the bank's data to be redacted in court documents.
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