Tesla sues ex-employee for allegedly stealing confidential software code
By Mansoor| Published: 25th January 2021 8:05 pm IST
Washington: American electric vehicle company Tesla has sued one of its former employees for allegedly stealing company information.
According to The Verge, Tesla stated that software engineer Alex Khatilov stole files from the company’s internal network related to its Warp Drive software. This software is used to automate many of the company’s business processes.
In the lawsuit, Tesla alleged that Khatilov moved files to his personal Dropbox account and that he was one of the few company employees who had access to that file. However, Khatilov has told Tesla investigators that he “forgot” about moving the files to his personal Dropbox when confronted and that he had unintentionally moved the files.
Days after he started at the company on January 25, 2021, 8:59
What just happened? Tesla has never been slow to call in the lawyers if it feels the need. The latest person to incur its wrath is software engineer Alex Khatilov, who is being sued by the automaker for allegedly stealing a slew of sensitive files and code and storing it in his personal Dropbox account three days after starting the job.
In the lawsuit, Khatilov is accused of downloading 26,000 files relating to Tesla’s Warp Drive backend software, used to automate many of the company’s essential business processes, “with the deliberate intent to injure Tesla’s business.”
24 January 2021, 10:55 am EST By Tesla lawsuit against employee ( Youtube/ Simone Internauto )
On January 22, Tesla went to court to file a lawsuit. The company claimed that a newly hired software engineer transferred more than 26,000 confidential documents to his personal Dropbox, including trade secrets.
Tesla files lawsuit against engineer
Alex Khaitov, the senior software quality assurance engineer, started his job at Tesla on December 28, 2020 and almost immediately began downloading thousands of sensitive files, according to Tesla.
Tesla said in a complaint filed on January 22 in the San Jose Division of the US district court of the Northern District of California that in just three days after he was hired, Khaitov stole thousands of trade secret computer scripts. These scripts took Tesla years to develop.
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