Tesla says data breach impacting 75,000 employees was an insider job – By Carly Page (Techcrunch) / Aug 21, 2023
Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees.
Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general that an investigation had found that two former employees leaked more than 75,000 individuals’ personal information to a foreign media outlet.
“The investigation revealed that two former Tesla employees misappropriated the information in violation of Tesla’s IT security and data protection policies and shared it with the media outlet,” Steven Elentukh, Tesla’s data privacy officer, wrote in the notice.
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