Friday, August 28, 2020

Elon Musk confirmed a Russian national tried to bribe a Tesla employee with $1 million in a bungled ransomware attack

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-was-target-of-failed-ransomware-attack-2020-8


Isobel Asher Hamilton

Aug. 28, 2020

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday confirmed reports that the company was the target of a botched ransomware attack.

Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov was accused by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday of offering $1 million to an employee at a company in Nevada — identified only as company A — to install malware on the company's systems.

Electrek reported Thursday that the unnamed company was Tesla, which Musk confirmed in a tweet. "This was a serious attack," Musk tweeted.


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