- Tesla has failed to appropriately protect data from clients, staff members, and business partners, claims a report by Germany’s Handelsblatt, citing 100 terabytes of secret information disclosed by a whistleblower.
- The “Tesla Files,” a set of documents that have been released, contain tables with more than 100,000 names of former and present employees, including Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, who is also listed by social security number.
- The documents also contain confidential production information, private email addresses, phone numbers, employee salaries, and customer bank information.
- A former service technician may be the source of the leak, according to a report from Germany’s Handelsblatt, which cites 100 terabytes of secret information disclosed by a whistleblower.
- According to a Tesla lawyer reported by Handelsblatt, a “disgruntled former employee” exploited their position as a service technician. The lawyer also said that the business would file a lawsuit against the person it suspected of the leak.
- Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features’ security has come under scrutiny following the disclosure of private information. The stolen information includes thousands of consumer complaints that were made between 2015 and March 2022 throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.
- Tesla’s European gigafactory is located in Brandenburg, which has a “massive” data breach, according to the data protection authority there. If such a violation were to be shown, Tesla might face fines of up to 4% of its annual sales, or €3.26 billion ($3.5 billion).
