A Bloomberg Employee Accidentally Posted More Than 10,000 Trader Messages And They Were Available Online For Years

Business Insider

And this is just getting even more embarrassing...

The Financial Times' Daniel Schäfer and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson report that thousands messages between traders on their Bloomberg Terminals were accidentally posted online and available through a simple Google search for years.

The more than 10,000 messages from 2009 and 2010—which were taken down today—included information such as names, email addresses and trading data, the report said.

They were posted on what was thought to be a secure site by a former Bloomberg employee (not a reporter) as part of a data mining project for pricing financial products, the FT's report said. 

Bloomberg told the FT that this would be against their policy and that they're considering all potential legal actions.