Daniel Nolte writes:
Fabrice Tourre of Goldman Sachs has the distinction of being the only person sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud in selling mortgage backed securities. While that may remain his primary claim to fame (thanks to a front-page article in the New York Times), there may be a secondary distinction added: the worst handling of computer security ever.
The Times article contains numerous e-mails between Tourre and his co-workers and legal counsel as they prepared for the case. How did the reporters get access to private Goldman Sachs e-mails including attorney-client discussions?
Read more about the gaffe that led to what emails being exposed in public BetweenTheNumbers.net