Tesla Failed to Protect Customer, Employee and Partner Data, Report
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Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reports that 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower show that Elon Musk’s Tesla has failed to adequately protect the data of customers, employees, and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system.
The leaked information reveals that customer data could be found “in abundance” in a data set labeled “Tesla Files.” The files contain more than 100,000 names of former and current employees, including the social security number of the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, along with private email addresses, phone numbers, salaries of employees, bank details of customers, and secret details from production.
The data protection office in Brandenburg, home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data…
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