Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk confirmed late Thursday that the automaker was the subject of a hacking attempt by a Russian national and his co-conspirators. What Happened: “This was a serious attack,” the billionaire entrepreneur said in response to a media report related to the attempted hacking on Twitter.A complaint was filed this week by prosecutors in Nevada against Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a Russian national, who allegedly conspired to recruit an employee at an unnamed company, in order to surreptitiously install malware on its computers.Musk’s tweet confirms the company detailed in the lawsuit is, in fact, Tesla.Kriuchkov approached …read more
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