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On March 18, it emerged that Russian Yegor Kryuchkov pleaded guilty to conspiracy to attack Tesla’s computer network. The founder of the company, Elon Musk, reacted to this with the phrase: “Crime and punishment.”
The founder of the American company Tesla, Elon Musk, reacted to the news that the Russian Yegor Kryuchkov pleaded guilty to organizing a cyber attack on his company.
“Crime and Punishment”, – wrote Musk in Russian on Twitter below the post with this news.
Obviously, the founder of Tesla tried to write the title of the famous novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in this way.
Crime and Punishment
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2021
On March 18, the US Department of Justice announced that Kryuchkov had pleaded guilty to conspiring to carry out a cyberattack on Tesla’s computer network. In particular, the Russian admitted that he had come to the United States to persuade a company employee to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network in Nevada.
27-year-old Kryuchkov August 22, 2020 arrested in Los Angeles. The investigation believes that, along with his accomplices, he tried to bribe a Tesla employee, insert software into the company’s computer network, extract corporate data from the network, and subsequently blackmail Tesla with it.
Kryuchkov was reported to have offered to pay a company employee $ 1 million in cash or bitcoins. However, he did not make a deal and turned to the FBI.
The US Department of Justice mentions that Kryuchkov had accomplices. Who they are and what happened to them is not specified. The verdict for Kryuchkov expires on May 10.
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