{"id":504796,"date":"2023-08-21T06:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=504796"},"modified":"2023-08-21T07:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:35:35","slug":"tesla-blames-data-breach-affecting-over-75000-people-on-insider-wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/504796-tesla-blames-data-breach-affecting-over-75000-people-on-insider-wrongdoing.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla blames data breach affecting over 75,000 people on &#8220;insider wrongdoing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc.\u2019s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of \u201cinsider wrongdoing,\u201d according to a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/014ae6db-4cb7-464b-b827-5d73f0bbc911.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0posted by the office of the Maine Attorney General Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 75,735 people were affected by the data breach, including nine residents of Maine.<\/p>\n<p>The people appear to be current or former employees of the Austin, Texas-based automaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA foreign media outlet (named Handelsblatt) informed Tesla on May 10, 2023 that it had obtained Tesla confidential information,\u201d according to a copy of an Aug. 18 letter by Tesla to those impacted that accompanied the data breach notification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation revealed that two former Tesla employees misappropriated the information in violation of Tesla\u2019s IT security and data protection policies and shared it with the media outlet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter goes on to state that Tesla filed lawsuits against the two former employees, without specifying in which jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits led to the seizure of electronic devices that were believed to have contained company information, according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesla also obtained court orders that prohibit the former employees from further use, access, or dissemination of the data, subject to criminal penalties,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesla cooperated with law enforcement and external forensics experts and will continue to take appropriate steps as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Elentukh, Tesla\u2019s data privacy officer, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/504680-hackers-selling-access-to-high-end-auction-houses-network-for-r2-3-million.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hackers selling access to high-end auction house\u2019s network for R2.3 million<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla filed lawsuits against the two former employees, leading to the seizure of electronic devices that were believed to have contained company information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":464709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63066,26330,88664,20719],"class_list":["post-504796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-data-breaches","tag-personal-data","tag-steven-elentukh","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504800,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504796\/revisions\/504800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}