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A leak wounded LabMD. Fighting the Feds finished it off

• therobot24 10y ago
  >> The path of least resistance was to settle... It's hard to fight the bureaucratic beast.
• Kristine1975 10y ago
  Daugherty believed signing a consent decree would give doctors the impression that LabMD had been lax in protecting patient data and kill his business. Well duh. LabMD violated patient privacy after all: The manager of the billing department had been using LimeWire file-sharing software to download music. Without knowing it, she’d left her documents folder, which contained the insurance report now in Tiversa’s possession, open for sharing with other users of the peer-to-peer network.
  • hackney 10y ago
    It was one employee of tiversa who discovered the folder. It was the tiversa leader Boback who then used that as an excuse for extortion, lying about the extent to which it was 'in the wild' (it wasn't). When daugherty fought back, sensing the scam, boback sicced the govt on him, who then stupidly just gobbled up whatever tiversa claimed. Tiversa is the company that needs to be crushed. LabMD had a very bad stroke of luck in one very very stupid employee. I hope daugherty wins both lawsuits, against the corrupt govt. and the pos co. tiversa.