At the request of investment bank Goldman Sachs, Google has blocked access to a sensitive e-mail that the bank mistakenly sent to a random Gmail account. Google confirmed to Goldman Sachs that the e-mail had not yet been opened by the recipient, according to a report late Wednesday from Reuters.

The e-mail in question, filled with confidential brokerage account information, was accidentally sent to a gmail.com address instead of a gs.com address by a contractor on June 23. Goldman Sachs tried to contact the e-mail account holder and then got in touch with Google, which initially said it would not take action without a court order. Goldman Sachs then filed for such a court order in a New York state court.

Initially, Reuters reported that Google would not even confirm the status of the e-mail to Goldman Sachs, but a Goldman Sachs representative has since said that Google did in fact help out the bank. According to Google, the e-mail was reportedly unopened and has now had its access "blocked."

While Google appears to be standing strong when it comes to actually "deleting" an e-mail without a court order, blocking access is functionally similar and apparently required no such legal action. As in the "right to be forgotten" lawsuits in Europe and in copyright holder pressure to censor search results pointing to pirate sites, Google finds itself increasingly held responsible for the content it once hoped only to host and index. And given e-mail's ubiquity—and the frequency of accidents that attend its use—the publicity of this most recent move could open the company to plenty more external pressure.