Recently, the American electric vehicle company Tesla has prosecuted one of its retired employees; Telsa claimed that this employee was allegedly stealing company data. The lawsuit was filed in the US Northern District of California Court, and the name of the asserted perpetrator is Alex Khatilov, he is a Quality Assurance software engineer.
The lawsuit states that Khatilov is accused of downloading nearly 26,000 files associating with Tesla’s Warp Drive backend software, and all these data were used to automate many of the company’s primary business methods. Moreover, Tesla has estimated that the files signify nearly “200 man-years of work.”
Nature of action
Telsa is trying to protect all its trade secrets from intentional theft by a former employee and making sure that it does not occur again. To save all its secrets, Tesla hired Defendant as a software automation engineer on December 28, 2020.
That’s why, within three days, he started stealing thousands of highly…