Bitcoin mining software and services company Luxor has filed a lawsuit against a former employee and bitcoin mining infrastructure provider Giga Energy, alleging ‘systematic’ employee poaching and client interference leading to loss of business.

I'm surprised you can sue a competitor for this. I get it if the employee signs a noncompete or a contract that says they won't try to hire anyone anyway from the company, but how is another company liable in this case? It justa sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect a competitor to do.

Per the complaint filed on January 30 in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Seattle), Luxor says that Giga poached two of its employees, Collin Kelly and Aaron Foster, and alleges the company purposely directed them to leverage their prior business relationships for Giga’s business despite this being in violation of the Luxor employee contracts. Luxor alleges it lost multiple clients to Giga through the efforts of its poached employees. The client names are redacted from the filing.

Similarly, Luxor is suing Aaron Foster for allegedly downloading contact information on 170 Luxor clients for use in Giga business development. The suit claims that Foster downloaded the client list on November 3, 2025, shortly before joining Giga at the end of December of the same year. Shortly thereafter, Foster began contacting Luxor clients “in an effort to divert their business from Luxor to Giga,” the complaint claims, further alleging that Foster tried to “[assist] Giga in soliciting additional Luxor employees to join Giga.”