Tesla says two ex-employees behind May data breach

Two former Tesla employees were behind a data breach that compromised personal information of more than 75,000 people including staff, the automaker said in a legal disclosure. Data exposed by the breach was leaked to German media outlet Handelsblatt, Steven Elentukh, Tesla's data privacy officer, said in a submission to Maine's attorney general office. A total of 75,735 people were affected by the data breach, including nine residents of Maine. At the time, Tesla identified the employees who leaked the data, filed lawsuits against them and seized their devices, the company said. This Tesla breach comes after Reuters reported in April that groups of Tesla employees privately shared via internal messaging systems customer information, including videos and images recorded through car cameras.