Musk tweeted on Thursday that “this is a serious attack.” Earlier news reported that an employee of the Tesla Gigafactory had helped the FBI defeat a Russian man’s attack plan. The Russian man was arrested on August 22 and charged with deliberately sabotaging a protected computer.
The U.S. Department of Justice stated in a statement on Tuesday that the 27-year-old Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov tried to hire employees of an unnamed company and implanted them into the company’s computer system. malicious software. The malware hopes to extract data from the network and blackmail the company.
The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Kryuchkov promised the employee that he would be paid $1 million for implanting malware.
It is reported that the Tesla employee contacted by Kryuchkov speaks Russian and has access to the Tesla computer system. The employee reported the matter to Tesla, and Tesla subsequently reported the incident to the FBI.
Tesla has not yet commented on this.
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