The Wells Fargo PII Epic Fail – Chapter II

The law firm that inadvertently produced records containing personally-identifying information ("PII") relating to 50,000 Wells Fargo customers in response to a third-party subpoena, which we first reported on here , went before a judge earlier this month, seeking to permanently bar the recipient and his counsel from further exploitation of the documents and their customer-identifying contents.

What happened at hearing in the Supreme Court for New York County was nothing short of a judicial punch-in-the-face. We'll get to that...

But first, the background. When we published our first report, counsel for Wells Fargo had filed for a temporary restraining order and requested a preliminary injunction to: (1) bar further use of the documents by Sinderbrand and his counsel; (2) compel the return of any copies of the documents in their possession; and (3) require Sinderbrand to submit to a deposition so that Wells Fargo could determine the extent of his disclosure of