{"id":53572,"date":"2023-09-07T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lawsuit-claims-tesla-corp-data-security-is-far-less-advanced-than-its-cars\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:30:15","slug":"lawsuit-claims-tesla-corp-data-security-is-far-less-advanced-than-its-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lawsuit-claims-tesla-corp-data-security-is-far-less-advanced-than-its-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims Tesla corp data security is far less advanced than its cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ex-Tesla staffer has filed a proposed class action lawsuit that blames poor access control at the carmaker for a data leak, weeks after Tesla itself sued the alleged leakers, two former employees.<\/p>\n

Benson Pai, who was a production associate on Tesla’s California campus, working on the construction and assembly of the electric car company’s vehicles, said the leak was a “direct result” of poor security controls on Tesla’s part. The suit, filed on Tuesday, claims the personally identifiable info of 75,000 current and former employees could be sold on the dark web because of the company’s “inadequate data security.”<\/p>\n

Pai, who is looking to front the people whose data was stolen, claimed<\/a> [PDF] in the filing that Tesla:<\/p>\n

The sueball comes weeks after Tesla said in a data breach filing with the state of Maine* that it had itself<\/a> sued two former employees whom it accused of stealing 75k staffers’ records \u2013 including, supposedly, Elon Musk’s own social security number (SSN).<\/p>\n

As The Reg<\/em> has mentioned<\/a> before, many class action lawsuits are launched on the premise that SSNs are something of a security fraud goldmine. Possession of only a person’s SSN, name, and address, for example, means criminals can take out a credit card or loan in the victim’s name. They can use it to obtain medical care (and rack up bills) under the person’s identity, or identify themselves using the purloined SSN when arrested \u2013 giving the victim a criminal record<\/a>. Elon Musk, at least, would have a name recognizable enough to potentially swerve that fate.<\/p>\n