PowerSchool, Bain Can't Skirt MDL Over Student Data Breach

By Allison Grande ( March 20, 2026, 11:45 PM EDT) -- A California federal judge has refused to toss multidistrict litigation seeking to hold PowerSchool and its majority stakeholder Bain Capital liable for a data breach that exposed roughly 50 million individuals' personal data, finding that Bain's involvement in the education technology provider's cybersecurity operations "went beyond what an ordinary investor would do."...

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