Former Tesla Employee Involved In Unethical Leak Conduct

Typically, personnel of organisations either move on for self-seeking reasons or management-induced reasons and when this happens such personnel would be expected never to be ill-motivated toward their former employer.

Recently, German publication Handelsblatt claims to have received 100 GB of internal Tesla data from a company insider.

The leak was reported by the newspaper on May 25, and it includes an alleged email from Tesla about the matter in which the automaker claims a former service technician may be the source of the leak.

The email indicates that Handelsblatt reached out to Elon Musk's company on May 10, and in response, Tesla reportedly responded on May 16 with the request that it be sent copies of the leaked materials and that the publication deletes any information it received.

Instead, the German website has published multiple articles on the data breach, claiming in one that the materials it received "suggest that the automaker has bigger technical problems than previously thought."

The leaker was able to acquire more than 23,000 files, the publication claims, the contents of which are said to be diverse, spanning everything from business secrets about its partners to worker info and customer data.