Snowflake Data Breach Cases Consolidated in Montana by MDL Panel

A wave of proposed data breach class actions against cloud storage provider Snowflake Inc. and its clients—including AT&T Inc., Advanced Auto Parts, and Ticketmaster LLC—were consolidated in the District of Montana by a federal judicial panel.

The 47 complaints subject to the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s Friday decision stemmed a breach of Snowflake’s cloud platform from April through June 2024 by cybercriminals who stole the stored personal information of more than 500 million of its clients’ consumers and employees.

The cases filed in Texas, California, North Carolina, and Georgia, and other districts all allege Snowflake and its ...