Published 20:03 IST, January 24th 2021
Elon Musk's Tesla sues former employee over theft of confidential files
The ex-employee joined Elon Musk's Tesla on December 28, 2020, and programmed software used in the Environment, Health, and Safety division.
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US electric car manufacturer company Tesla on January 23 sued a former employee for allegedly stealing 26,000 confidential files, just three days into employment. Software engineer Alex Khatilov was accused of tre secret ft and breach of contract and Elon Musk owned firm filed case against former employee, slapping charges of tre ft. According to court filing, Khatilov discreetly transferred data used by company’s backend software system, WARP drive to his own personal Dropbox. CNBC reported, that ex-employee also deleted evidence of breach when firm’s security teams approached him.
accused was hired by Tesla’s Quality Assurance team, and he programmed software used in Environment, Health, and Safety division. He joined car manufacturing firm on December 28, 2020. In a breach of company’s code of conduct, ex-Tesla worker h started to uplo confidential files in a programming langu called Python to his own cloud stor and was reportedly caught on January 6 by Tesla. codes in tre computer scripts were of great concern to Tesla as company took several years to build m and company alleged that it was romap to copy Tesla’s invation. Some confidential files were 200 years of work, Tesla stated, ding that firm n decided to sue employee.
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Sued ors for intellectual property ft
In a statement to NYPost, Khatilov alleged that Tesla’s confidential and integral software ended up in his Dropbox by mistake when he was creating a backup of a folder on his computer. He dismissed allegations saying that data h unintentionally copied into his cloud stor and he was unaware of it whole time. Earlier, Tesla h sued former employees Rivian and Zoox, over alleged ft of intellectual property, and employee Martin Tripp for more than $167 million in dam for withholding relevant info from shareholders. Tesla CEO Elon Musk h labelled Tripp as a “saboteur” in official company e-mails as firm alleged that ex-employee h illegally exported data and me false claims to reporters in several press interviews.
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20:03 IST, January 24th 2021