Unprecedented: Private Equity Firm Potentially on Hook for PowerSchool’s Data Breach (opens in new tab)

Tyler Bridegan, Scott Hyman, Patrick Strubbe, and Sarah Wilk of Womble Bond Dickinson write: In a first of its kind, a California federal judge allowed claims against Bain Capital to proceed based on a data breach at its subsidiary, PowerSchool. Notably, many of the claims are based on conduct that occurred before Bain’s acquisition of PowerSchool. Although... Source