Tesla announced Tuesday that an employee was fired last month after he 'maliciously sabotaged' a part of a factory in Fremont, California. Tesla announced Tuesday that an employee was fired last month after he 'maliciously sabotaged' a part of a factory in Fremont, CaliforniaOperations at the facility were disrupted briefly, Prescott said in the email. 'Two weeks ago, our IT and InfoSec teams determined than [sic] an employee had maliciously sabotaged a part of the Factory,' Prescott wrote in the email. Just last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company's Nevada factory was targeted in a cyberattack by a Russian tourist. Kriuchkov was federally charged with conspiracy to damage a protected computer, after the Tesla employee alerted the company and the FBI.

Source: Daily Mail October 06, 2020 22:31 UTC