Tesla has accused an engineer of downloading about 26,000 sensitive files in his first week

[Zorro]

Tesla in a Friday court filing said a software engineer transferred about 26,000 confidential documents, including trade secrets, to his personal Dropbox during his first week at the company.

Senior software quality assurance engineer Alex Khaitov started his job at Tesla on December 28, 2020, and almost immediately began downloading sensitive files, according to Tesla.

"Within three days of being hired by Tesla, Defendant brazenly stole thousands of trade secret computer scripts that took Tesla years to develop," Tesla said in a complaint filed on Friday in the San Jose Division of the US district court of the Northern District of California.

Tesla is suing Khaitov, accusing him of stealing trade secrets and confidential information, along with breaching his contract. Khatilov was fired when internal investigators discovered the file transfers, according to Tesla.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-tesla-suing-an-ex-worker-who-it-says-downloaded-trade-secrets-2021-1

That's not going to look good come performance evaluation time...

[stopdiggin]

1. until they start putting some teeth into

white collar prosecutions ....
(I mean -- this guy didn't even try to hide what he was doing! Trip on that for a while.)

[dalton99a]

2. "Khatilov claims he moved the files over by mistake"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9178439/Tesla-staffer-denies-stealing-massive-cache-code-days-starting-work-company.html

[Hekate]

6. Sure he did

[roamer65]

3. Russian intelligence?

Sounds like GRU.

[JI7]

4. What is the background of this Alex Khaitov ?

[Hekate]

5. Industrial espionage is a real thing, and very damaging. Is he Russian, by any chance?

[mitch96]

7. Any large deposits in his off shore bank accounts? nt

[Ron Obvious]

8. Strange that a new hire would even have access to those files.

Or that he immediately knew what they were for that matter.