You may recall, a few years ago, a lawsuit involving Rocky Mountain Bank, who apparently screwed up (badly) and sent confidential and "sensitive" information concerning customers to a gmail email address entirely by mistake.
The bank went to court to find out who the recipient was... and the court ordered Google to just shut down the account.

We’ve been covering the story of a 

Here’s an example of how you can get caught up in a lawsuit, and possibly have your identity