MOVEit Breach Defendants Lose 2nd Bid to Toss Negligence Claims

Christopher Brown reports that bellwether defendants in multi-district litigation arising from a massive data breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit file-transfer application failed to persuade a federal court to dismiss negligence claims; the judge held the economic-loss doctrine did not require dismissal at this stage. This is a legal/news update about litigation tied to a large breach rather than a technical incident analysis.