On Thursday, September 17, 2026, Luxor Technology Corporation filed an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Giga Energy, Inc. and Aaron Foster, a former Luxor account manager, alleging trade secret theft, breach of contract, and unlawful solicitation of customers and employees.
According to the complaint, Luxor and Giga are direct competitors that serve data center operators involved in Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence computing and other high-energy processing, competing in both hardware sales and energy management services across regional power markets including Texas and the Southwest Power Pool.
Luxor alleges that Giga has pursued a strategy of recruiting Luxor’s account managers to gain access to confidential customer relationships. The complaint says Giga hired away Matthew Lousteau in 2024, followed by account managers Collin Kelly in February 2025 and Foster in late 2025. Kelly, the complaint states, began contacting former Luxor clients within weeks of joining Giga and successfully diverted business from at least three customers, with Luxor estimating $1.8 million in lost sales.
The complaint’s central allegations concern Foster, who worked at Luxor from September 2021 until November 13, 2025, initially as an independent contractor through his company, Electric City Digital, Inc. Luxor claims that after informally accepting a job offer from Giga in October 2025, Foster downloaded confidential company files, including pricing and margin data, quarterly financial reports, and a customer database containing records for the roughly 150 to 200 accounts he managed.
Luxor further alleges Foster took a separate, more sensitive spreadsheet containing commission data for all Luxor account managers along with contact and revenue information for thousands of customers company-wide, material Luxor says was shared with him solely to audit his team’s commissions.
During his offboarding, the complaint states that Foster falsely told Luxor he had wiped his devices and no longer possessed company data. Luxor alleges that within days of his departure, Foster began contacting his former clients on Giga’s behalf, including outreach in December 2025 and January 2026 to customers in Canada, Singapore, China and Nebraska, and that he also promoted a Giga job opening to former Luxor colleagues on LinkedIn.
The complaint cites a February 2025 email exchange in which Luxor’s chief executive, Nick Hansen, confronted Giga co-founder Matt Lohstroh about the recruitment of Luxor staff. According to the filing, Lohstroh responded that he could not promise Giga would stop hiring from Luxor. Luxor also alleges a former Giga employee told the company that Giga leadership, including co-founder Brent Whitehead, had made continued employment contingent on staff leveraging prior industry relationships regardless of contractual restrictions.
The lawsuit brings six claims, including violations of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Washington Uniform Trade Secrets Act, breach of contract against Foster, tortious interference claims against Giga, and a request for injunctive relief. Luxor is asking the court to bar Giga and Foster from soliciting Luxor customers for one year, to bar Foster from soliciting Luxor employees for the same period, and to compel the return or deletion of any misappropriated files.
The company is also seeking monetary damages of at least $1.8 million, exemplary damages of up to twice that amount, and attorneys’ fees.
Luxor has demanded a jury trial.
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