Snowflake Loses Two More Bids to Dismiss Data Breach Plaintiffs

Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge.

The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of the at least 165 companies and organizations which had their data stolen because cybercriminals hacked into Snowflake’s systems. Parents and students from Los Angeles were able to convince the US District Court for the District of Montana to let their negligence and consumer protection claims advance Wednesday.

The data breach compromised different sets of data depending on the victim. Cybercriminals lifted ...