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Elon Musk said Thursday that the Tesla Inc plant in Nevada was the target of a “serious” cyber-security attack, confirming a media report claiming that a company employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) helped thwart the attack.
News website Teslarati said the electric car maker was the unnamed company in a statement issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice over the arrest of a Russian national, in connection with a planned attack on an unidentified company.
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“This was a serious attack,” Musk said in a tweet, in response to the Teslarati article.
The Justice Department said Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, a Russian national, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to intentionally damage a protected computer by trying to recruit a staff member to enter malware into a system.
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The malware was aimed at extracting data from the network and then threatening the company for ransom, the statement said.
According to the Justice Department, Kriuchkov had promised the employee a $ 1 million incentive to introduce the malware into the system.
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But the employee warned the FBI, who were successful in the attack, filed a complaint through the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
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(Report by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Edited by Shailesh Kuber)
