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In a leaked email, Tesla’s vice president of legal and acting general counsel Al Prescott warned workers that an anonymous employee “maliciously sabotaged” part of a factory last month, Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p> “Two weeks ago, our IT and InfoSec teams determined than [sic] an employee had maliciously sabotaged a part of the Factory,” Prescott wrote. Thanks to the team’s “quick actions,” he wrote, further damage was prevented with production “running smoothly again a few hours later.”<\/p> Once they were shown “irrefutable evidence, the employee confessed,” according to Prescott’s email. The employee was fired on the spot.<\/p> It’s still unclear what the employee’s act of sabotage amounted to.<\/p> Bloomberg<\/em> reports that the local Fremont police department was not contacted or called for assistance.<\/p> The news comes weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed his electric car company’s factory in Nevada was the victim of a Russian national cyberattack<\/a>.<\/p> Musk was also recently embroiled in a lawsuit<\/a> by former Tesla employee Martin Tripp, who allegedly violated trade secrets and computer crime laws. In June 2018, Musk emailed all of Tesla<\/a>, accusing Tripp of being caught conducting “damaging sabotage to our operations.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Tesla Alleges Act of Employee Sabotage in New Internal Email<\/a> [Bloomberg<\/em>] More on Tesla:<\/strong> Tesla’s Roof Flies Off While Driving Home From Dealership<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Leaked Tesla Memo: Angry Employee Sabotaged Part of Factory<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Follow this link: Under Attack In a\u00a0leaked email, Tesla\u2019s vice president of legal and acting general counsel Al Prescott warned workers that an anonymous employee \u201cmaliciously sabotaged\u201d part of a factory last month, Bloomberg reports . \u201cTwo weeks ago, our IT and InfoSec teams determined than [sic] an employee had maliciously sabotaged a part of the Factory,\u201d Prescott wrote. Continue reading Aftermath<\/h2>
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