Tesla has started to notify current and former employees after 75,000 confidential files with personal information were included in an insider data breach in May.
The data breach which involved employee-related records at the Austin, Texas-based automaker was a result of “insider wrongdoing,” according to an Aug. 18 notice on the Maine attorney general office’s website.The leak affected 75,735 Tesla workers in total and involved Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, said the company.