Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Tesla sued a former employee who worked in its Gigafactory in Nevada, accusing him of stealing trade secrets. The lawsuit appears to be what CEO Elon Musk was referring to recently when he said that production of the Model 3 had been sabotaged. Musk said that there are "more" alleged saboteurs.

According to the civil complaint that was filed in federal court in Nevada, Tesla accused Martin Tripp, who began working in Sparks as a "process technician" in October 2017, of exporting company data: "Tesla has only begun to understand the full scope of Tripp's illegal activity, but he has thus far admitted to writing software that hacked Tesla's manufacturing operating system ("MOS") and to transferring several gigabytes of Tesla data to outside entities. This includes dozens of confidential photographs and a video of Tesla's manufacturing systems."

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If you don't like your job

[Jahoda]

Then quit.

It never ceases to amaze me the gross sense of entitlement that certain types of people have. Tesla gave this dude a job, which he felt was beneath him. He performed that job poorly, and Tesla continued to employ him. The way he thanked Tesla was to commit corporate espionage, access systems which were not his property, make libelous statements, and steal. Now he will never be employed in his chosen field in any meaningful role, ever again. Destitute from civil financial judgement against him And that is after he gets out of prison for the criminal charges which will surely be forthcoming due to his unauthorized access of Tesla systems.

Re:If you don't like your job

[Rei]

while Musk cleans up drawing millions as CEO.

FYI: Musk has no salary. His only compensation is his stock. And he only gets more stock if the company meets some extremely aggressive benchmarks. Otherwise, he's working for free.

That's not to pity him; he's plenty wealthy as it is. I just wanted to correct your comment. He earns no salary from Tesla.

...and security controls if this guy was able to do this and nobody can figure it out unless he admits to it

Please read the lawsuit. They found evidence that he was doing this and confronted him about it, only getting the confession after showing him the evidence they had of him doing it.