Blackbaud data breach could result in class action lawsuit [Video]

DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) – Charleston-based software company Blackbaud remains under fire for a security breach that affected about a third of their clients and opened up more than a million files with sensitive data to hackers.

Nearly four years after the breach, a legal team at least 12 people deep represents clients of Blackbaud who want to file a class action lawsuit against the company for what it calls lax security and handling of the breach.

For days, lawyers hashed out the details in federal court. Certain requirements must be met before filing a class action, and that’s what each side made their case for. Blackbaud hopes to avoid a large lawsuit, and lawyers for the businesses with lost data, made their case that this is too big to ignore with lasting impacts.

Blackbaud is a company that sells software to other companies, which can use it to store …