Good old Bloomberg, he's not like other politicians...

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Not even other politicians are safe from his prying fingers.

The Bloomberg terminal spying scandal has reached new heights, CNBC reports.

A former Bloomberg employee told CNBC that he accessed information on the terminals of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. The employee didn't say specifically what he was looking at, but that it concerned usage of specific functions.

News of the scandal broke on Friday when the New York Post revealed that Goldman Sachs had complained that employees usage of their terminals were spied on by Bloomberg reporters. Further reports indicated that the spying was more widespread, affecting other companies such as JPMorgan.

With over 300,000 customers, Bloomberg terminals are considered a staple of information in the financial world.

Things got worse for Bloomberg later on Saturday, when BuzzFeed published a report claiming that higher-ups at the financial information giant knew that journalists were accessing subscriber log-in data as early as 2011. A Bloomberg TV anchor made comments on-air suggesting that journalists at the company were using the information for potential stories.

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