Tesla has routed out a saboteur who changed 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.”
While Musk said Tesla doesn't know the full extent of the employee's actions, “what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad,” noting that the saboteur claims to have wreaked his mayhem because “he wanted a promotion” that he was denied.