Jones v. AT&T Inc.

Filing 10

MDL ORDER. CASE TRANSFERRED to District of Montana. Electronic Records Sent. Case Closed. (Deputy Clerk JJD) [Transferred from caed on 1/3/2025.]

UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL
on
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
IN RE: SNOWFLAKE, INC., DATA SECURITY
BREACH LITIGATION

FILED
Jan 03, 2025
CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MDL No. 3126

(SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE)

CONDITIONAL TRANSFER ORDER (CTO ?7)

On October 4, 2024, the Panel transferred 31 civil action(s) to the United States District Court for the District
of Montana for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. See
F.Supp.3d (J.P.M.L. 2024). Since that time, 26 additional action(s) have been transferred to the District
of Montana. With the consent of that court, all such actions have been assigned to the Honorable Brian
Morris.
It appears that the action on this conditional transfer order (Jones) involves questions of fact that are common
to the actions previously transferred to the District of Montana and assigned to Judge Morris. MDL No. 3126
concerns a cluster of data breaches that allegedly occurred on the Snowflake cloud platform from
approximately April through June 2024 and impacted multiple Snowflake corporate clients. See id. In
particular, “the breach of AT&T data on the Snowflake cloud, which was announced in July 2024, allegedly
involves metadata for calls and texts made by AT&T cellular customers and certain others using the AT&T
network from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022, and, for some customers, records from January 2, 2023.”
See id. n.6. The Jones action concerns the same alleged data breach.1
Pursuant to Rule 7.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation,
the action(s) on the attached schedule are transferred under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to the District of Montana for
the reasons stated in the order of October 4, 2024, and, with the consent of that court, assigned to the
Honorable Brian Morris.
This order does not become effective until it is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District
Court for the District of Montana. The transmittal of this order to said Clerk shall be stayed 7 days from the
entry thereof. If any party files a notice of opposition with the Clerk of the Panel within this 7?day period, the
stay will be continued until further order of the Panel.

FOR THE PANEL:
Jan 02, 2025

Marcella R. Lockert
Acting Clerk of the Panel
January
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Defendant AT&T previously noticed this action as a potential tag-along action in MDL No. 3114, In re: AT&T Inc.
Customer Data Security Breach Litigation. MDL No. 3114 concerns an earlier data breach announced by AT&T in March
2024, which does not appear to be the basis of the claims in Jones. See In re AT&T Inc. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig.,
___ F. Supp. 3d ___ (J.P.M.L. 2024).

IN RE: SNOWFLAKE, INC., DATA SECURITY
BREACH LITIGATION

SCHEDULE CTO?7 ? TAG?ALONG ACTIONS

DIST

DIV.

C.A.NO.

CASE CAPTION

24?03368

(PS) Jones v. AT&T Inc.

CALIFORNIA EASTERN
CAE

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