10,000 Bloomberg users’ messages leaked online

More than 10,000 private messages from traders at more than a dozen of the world’s largest banks sent through Bloomberg’s messaging system illegally leaked online, harming the reputation of the company’s $20,000-a-year secure terminals.
The messages included trade information and other confidential details from global banks, including Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Nomura JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.

The leaked information that included user identifiers, real names, traders' e-mail addresses, confidential financial price information and trading activity dates from 2009 and 2010, was freely available online and could be easily found through a simple Google search.
With the help of the leaked data, journalists were able to access private information about how Bloomberg’s customers used the service, extract price data for their use on bonds, credit default swaps and other financial products from traders' messages.
Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, Matthew Winkler, apologized for the loophole, but it would hardly help to restore faith in the company’s terminals, as many clients relied on the machines for real-time information about share prices, currency fluctuation and breaking financial news.