Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was arrested in Los Angeles on August 22, 2020. He tried to recruit an insider within Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, persuade him to deploy malware on the company’s network, and then ransom Tesla under threat that he would leak stolen data stolen from their systems. Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the Russian national was trying to recruit a Tesla employee. He was charged with conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer, facing a statutory maximum of five years in prison.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/elon-musk-confirmed-russians-plans-to-extort-tesla/