A former HSBC Holdings employee is suing the company for unfair dismissal after he was fired for sending client data to his personal email address, Bloomberg reports. Ben Lazimy sent a 1,400-page spreadsheet containing every equity transaction the bank processed in 2010, including information on client names and margins, HSBC lawyer Clarisse Lebigot said. Jamila El Berry, Lazimy’s lawyer, said no breach of professional secrecy was committed, as the document was never seen by another party. The spreadsheet could be accessed by nearly everyone in the building, and police found the attachment “was damaged and unusable.” HSBC suffered a similar incident when another former employee took client data to show its Geneva private banking unit was aiding foreign clients dodge taxes.
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