Car
manufacturer
Tesla’s
CEO,
Elon
Musk,
may
have
had
his
social
security
number
leaked
in
a
data
breach
that
saw
100GB
of
confidential
information
accessed.
The
Dutch
data
protection
watchdog,
Autoriteit
Persoonsgegevens
(DPA),
has
said
that
Tesla
may
have
failed
to
protect
confidential
data
from
employees,
customers
and
business
partners.
According
to
news
publication
Reuters,
Tesla
has
been
accused
of
failing
to
protect
employee,
customer
and
business
partner
data
after
100GB
of
confidential
information
was
leaked
by
an
employee.
The
DPA
has
said
that
it
is
“looking
into”
the
data
breach.
According
to
German
newspaper
Handelsblatt,
the
publication
which
broke
the
Tesla
data
leak
story,
the
files
leaked
include
the
names
of
more
than
100,000
names
of
current
and
former
Telsa
employees,
including
the
social
security
number
of
Tesla
CEO
Elon
Musk.
Other
sensitive
data
included
in
the
leak
includes
the
phone
numbers,
private
email
addresses
and
salaries
of
employees,
bank
details
of
customers
and
confidential
details
from
Tesla
production.
This
would
mean
the
breach
would
violate
European
Union
General
Data
Protection
Regulation
(EU
GDPR)
laws.
According
to
Handelsblatt,
a
Tesla
lawyer
said
a
“disgruntled
former
employee”
had
abused
their
position
as
a
service
technician
to
gain
access
to
the
data
and
legal
action
would
be
taken
against
said
individual.
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