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By Lyrie Threat Intelligence·5/1/2026
Unprecedented: Private Equity Firm Potentially on Hook for PowerSchool’s Data Breach
Source: DataBreaches.net
Published: Fri, 01 May 2026 11:14:01 +0000
Summary
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...
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