Bloomberg Users’ Messages Leaked Online

It is a bit of a cluster for Bloomberg. From the article:

"The messages had been found, a financial markets professional said, through a simple Google search. They were taken down from the internet on Monday, after the FT inquired about them.

They showed information such as unique Bloomberg user identifiers, real names and traders' e-mail addresses as well as confidential financial price information and trading activity."

and supposedly unrelated:

"... Goldman Sachs had complained that the news organization's journalists had been able to track when users accessed their terminals and which functions they used."

This is very interesting. I work with traders at one of the big banks mentioned in this article and I can totally see how this leak could be impactful. Traders exchange pricing information all the time on BBG messaging.

Anyone having a link to the "backup" of these?

It'll be interesting to see how the security breach came about...something trivial that was previously protected by obscurity? Lots of people have never used a Bloomberg terminal, and its main clientele don't seem like the type to heavily security test it for fun.

That was fast...see prior comment on this issue:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698514

I find it interesting that people used this because of its usefulness and security.