Tesla has routed out a saboteur who changed the code on internal products and exfiltrated data to outsiders, damaging company operations and possibly causing a fire, CEO Elon Musk told employees in an email.
“I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations,” Musk wrote in an email obtained by CNBC. “This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.”
David Ginsburg, vice president of marketing at Cavirin, “The disturbing thing is that the same techniques used to impact the manufacturing systems could be used to inject malicious code into the auto’s firmware, with unknown consequences,” http://www.cavirin.com/
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