Snowflake, AT&T, Ticketmaster Sued Over ‘Infostealer’ Breach (1)

Snowflake Inc. and its clients are facing a wave of litigation over an April data breach that reportedly exposed the personal information of millions of people, including customers of Ticketmaster LLC, AT&T Inc., and Advance Auto Parts Inc.

The lawsuits allege that Snowflake, a provider of cloud storage services and a holder of a nearly 20% market share in the data-hosting market, failed to implement basic and expected data-security measures, allowing hackers to steal data from at least 165 companies and organizations, including 560 million customer records from Ticketmaster alone.

Data exposed in the incident included Social Security ...