There's another really good lesson to be learned here, too. Get a lawyer. When some asshole at a company or in the police or government threatens you with legal action, especially for something you're pretty sure is the right thing to do, you need to hire a defense. Men with power know that most people are timid and don't know their rights. Its up to us to hold them to account. Unfortunately, the best way to do that is to hire a lawyer and never agree to signing or admitting to anything without your counsel's approval. Skytech sounds like a bully organization who just wanted to make sure that their embarrassing fuckup was seen as "being under attack" rather than just piece-of-shit coding that could have led to countless identity thefts. Corporations should be afraid of the government, and the government should be afraid of its citizens. The situation, it seems, is presently upside down.