An employee steals 26,000 confidential Tesla files
Tesla filed a lawsuit in a California court, where a former employee accused him of stealing 26,000 secret files, from his employment December 28 until his dismissal a week later, following these facts.
Tesla also indicated that it summoned this aforementioned employee to a videoconference, and that it monitored these downloads, and accused him of seeking to destroy evidence.
Tesla indicated that the engineer refused during the meeting to allow the company to view the contents of his computer, while he hastily removed information from his device.
But the investigations revealed that the same confidential files belonging to Tesla, which were detected on the laptop, especially if they were still present on his account for storage.
The group also clarified that the uploaded electronic files are not related to the responsibilities of the former employee, and they deal with the automation processes of some manufacturing and commercial marketing paths.
Tesla confirmed that it expelled the aforementioned employee for discovering the theft of trade secrets, of their own, and the reason for his lies and repeated concealment of information in the investigation.
